CVEs / CVE-2025-24085

CVE-2025-24085: Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Known exploited in the CISA KEV catalog since 29 Jan 2025
critical 10 CVSS 3.1 (NVD)
EPSS 17.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of CVEs (30 Oct 2026)
Last changed at its sources 17 Jun 2026

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Summary

Apple iOS, macOS, and other Apple products contain a user-after-free vulnerability that could allow a malicious application to elevate privileges.
CISA, Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Description

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, iPadOS 17.7.6, macOS Sequoia 15.3, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.5, tvOS 18.3, visionOS 2.3, watchOS 11.3. A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 17.2.
The CVE record, via NVD · published 27 Jan 2025 · NVD status: Analyzed

Affected and fixed versions

As stated by the CVE record (from the CNA)
Product	Affected	Fixed in
Apple iOS and iPadOS	before 18.3	18.3
Apple iPadOS	before 17.7.6	17.7.6
Apple macOS	before 13.7.5	13.7.5
Apple macOS	before 14.7.5	14.7.5
Apple macOS	before 15.3	15.3
Apple tvOS	before 18.3	18.3
Apple visionOS	before 2.3	2.3
Apple watchOS	before 11.3	11.3

Exploitation

In CISA KEV since	29 Jan 2025
Due date for US federal agencies	19 Feb 2025
Used in ransomware campaigns	Unknown
Required action	Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Severity

CVSS 3.1	10 critical `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H` Scored by NVD
Weakness	CWE-416

References

CVE-2025-24085 on NVD
CVE-2025-24085 in the CISA KEV catalog
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122066 (cited by CISA)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068 (cited by CISA)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122071 (cited by CISA)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122072 (cited by CISA)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122073 (cited by CISA)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122066 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122071 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122072 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122073 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122372 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122374 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122375 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/9 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/12 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/13 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/15 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/19 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/19 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/23 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/30 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/31 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Sources

Exploitation status from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scores from FIRST. Descriptions, severity and references from the National Vulnerability Database. Open-source package versions from OSV (CC-BY 4.0). Text is shown as each source states it; Stackurity does not edit it. Check the vendor's advisory before acting.

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