CVE-2025-24200
Apple iOS and iPadOS Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability
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Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 5 March 2025). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.8.4 and iPadOS 15.8.4, iOS 16.7.11 and iPadOS 16.7.11, iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 17.7.5. A physical attack may disable USB Restricted Mode on a locked device. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 4.46% probability · 91th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 12 February 2025 · due 5 March 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Affected
- apple/ipados · apple/iphone os
- Source
- product-security@apple.com
EPSS 4.5% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. 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/122173 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24200
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122173Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122174Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122345Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122346Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Feb/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Feb/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24200US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.