CVE-2025-24085
Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 19 February 2025). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 10.0 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 17.51% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 5 June 2025
- CISA KEV
- Listed 29 January 2025 · due 19 February 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- apple/ipados · apple/iphone os · apple/macos · apple/tvos · apple/visionos · apple/watchos
- Source
- product-security@apple.com
EPSS 17.5% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://support.apple.com/en-us/122066 ; https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068 ; https://support.apple.com/en-us/122071 ; https://support.apple.com/en-us/122072 ; https://support.apple.com/en-us/122073 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24085
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122066Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122071Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122072Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122073Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122372Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122374Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122375Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/12Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/13Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/15Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/19Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/19Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/23Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/30Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/31Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/JGoyd/Glass-Cage-iOS18-CVE-2025-24085-CVE-2025-24201Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/194Issue Tracking
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24085US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.