Apple iOS and iPadOS

CVE-2025-43300
CRITICAL 10.0CISA KEV ↗Exploited per ENISA since 2025-08-21

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 65.16 % · percentile 99 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
apple
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5, iOS 16.7.12 and iPadOS 16.7.12, iOS 18.6.2 and iPadOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 17.7.10, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.8, macOS Ventura 13.7.8. Processing a malicious image file may result in memory corruption. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Apple · iOS and iPadOSaffected 0 < 15.8.5 ; affected 0 < 16.7.12 ; affected 0 < 18.6.2
Apple · iPadOSaffected 0 < 17.7.10
Apple · macOSaffected 0 < 13.7.8 ; affected 0 < 14.7.8 ; affected 0 < 15.6.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited VulnerabilitiesCC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD