NVD / CVE Program· CNA apple

CVE-2025-24085: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: This week (action score 75/100)

CISA has confirmed exploitation in the wild (Jan 29, 2025). Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Feb 19, 2025.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 17.4% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 97.1% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window. Until a fix is released, restrict access to the affected component and follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS

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.

CriticalCVSS 10.0 · v3.1KEVWeaponized No fix recorded

BDU:2025-00858

Published: Jan 27, 2025
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 17.4% · 97th percentile
CWE: CWE-416

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This week

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window.

CVSS: 40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
CISA KEV: 30 / 30 · Listed
EPSS: 5 / 30 · 17.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: active
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

Actively exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Jan 29, 2025. That signals real attacks, not theory.

Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Feb 19, 2025.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
apple	ipados	cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados
apple	iphone os	cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os
apple	macos	cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos
apple	tvos	cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos
apple	visionos	cpe:2.3:o:apple:visionos
apple	watchos	cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

apple ipadosbefore 17.7.6
apple ipados18.0 and later · before 18.3
apple iphone osbefore 18.3
apple macos13.0 and later · before 13.7.5
apple macos14.0 and later · before 14.7.5
apple macos15.0 and later · before 15.3
apple tvosbefore 18.3
apple visionosbefore 2.3
apple watchosbefore 11.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (apple). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Apple iOS and iPadOS
- before 18.3affected
Apple iPadOS
- before 17.7.6affected
Apple macOS
- before 13.7.5affected
- before 14.7.5affected
- before 15.3affected
Apple tvOS
- before 18.3affected
Apple visionOS
- before 2.3affected
Apple watchOS
- before 11.3affected

Same product

apple: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2025-43300An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.KEV
90Now
CVE-2021-30860An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.KEV
84Now
CVE-2023-32434An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.KEV
78This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-54541Jan 27, 2025 · This issue was addressed through improved state management.
22Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-54550Jan 27, 2025 · This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information.
16Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-24086Jan 27, 2025 · The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Evidence

Exploit-DB entry ×1
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×1

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Exploit-DB entry	local	2025-06-05
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:42	2025-08-23

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

PublishedJan 27, 2025
CISA KEVJan 29, 2025+1 d
First PoCJun 5, 2025+128 d
TodayNov 10, 2026+652 d

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2023-41974383 days apartA use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.KEV
62This week
CVE-2025-43222183 days apartA use-after-free issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
39Monitor
CVE-2024-544990 days apartA use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
35Monitor
CVE-2025-2425291 days apartA use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
35Monitor
CVE-2026-28947469 days apartA use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
35Monitor
CVE-2023-39434488 days apartA use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
35Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1free(dev->buf);
2/* ... another thread is still running ... */
3process(dev->buf);

Fixed

1lock(&dev->lock);
2free(dev->buf);
3dev->buf = NULL;
4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/9

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