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7.8
HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVE-2025-24085
Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability - [Actively Exploited]
Description

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in visionOS 2.3, iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3. 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.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 27, 2025, 10:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

March 21, 2025, 9:01 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No

Source :

[email protected]
CISA Notification
CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities)

For the benefit of the cybersecurity community and network defenders—and to help every organization better manage vulnerabilities and keep pace with threat activity—CISA maintains the authoritative source of vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild.

Description :

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

Required Action :

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Notes :

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

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-24085 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Apple macos
2 Apple iphone_os
3 Apple tvos
4 Apple watchos
5 Apple ipados
6 Apple visionos
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 6
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 HIGH [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 HIGH 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Solution
Update to the latest version to fix memory management issues and privilege escalation.
  • Update visionOS to version 2.3.
  • Update iOS to version 18.3.
  • Update iPadOS to version 18.3.
  • Update macOS to version 15.3.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2025-24085 has a 10 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2025-24085.

URL Resource
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
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2025-24085 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2025-24085 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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JGoyd/glass-cage-ios18-cve-2025-24085-cve-2025-24201

Glass Cage is a zero-click PNG-based RCE chain in iOS 18.2.1, exploiting WebKit (CVE-2025-24201) and Core Media (CVE-2025-24085) to achieve sandbox escape, kernel-level access, and device bricking. Triggered via iMessage, it enables full compromise with no user interaction.

imessage ios kernel-exploit privilege-escalation rce sandbox-escape zero-click zeroday cve-2025-24085 cve-2025-24201

Updated: 1 day, 13 hours ago
0 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Aug. 23, 2025, 5:08 a.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.
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windz3r0day/CVE-2025-24085

report for CVE-2025-24085 Apple CoreMedia

Updated: 3 months ago
3 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : May 20, 2025, 9:58 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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apt-007/12345

CVE-2025-24085漏洞 和 Schemeshare漏洞

C Objective-C Swift

Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 12 fork 12 watcher
Born at : May 13, 2025, 3:55 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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pxx917144686/12345

CVE-2025-24085漏洞、CVE_2025_31200漏洞、CVE_2025_31201漏洞、VM_BEHAVIOR_ZERO_WIRED_PAGES漏洞

Swift Objective-C C

Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago
9 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : May 13, 2025, 1:40 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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plzheheplztrying/cve_monitor

None

HTML Python Shell

Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 13, 2025, 8:50 a.m. This repo has been linked 891 different CVEs too.
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bronsoneaver/CVE-2025-24085

CVE-2025-24085: Incorrect Default Permissions (CWE-276)

Updated: 4 months, 1 week ago
7 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Jan. 30, 2025, 11:08 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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clidancc1/CVE-2025-24085

CVE-2025-24085: Incorrect Default Permissions (CWE-276)

Updated: 6 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Jan. 29, 2025, 9 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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clidanc/CVE-2025-24085

None

Updated: 6 months, 4 weeks ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Jan. 28, 2025, 12:53 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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ums91/CISA_BOT

CISA Bot is a GitHub bot that automatically monitors the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. When new vulnerabilities are published in the KEV, the bot creates GitHub issues in this repository with detailed information about each vulnerability.

Python

Updated: 9 hours, 27 minutes ago
2 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Oct. 29, 2024, 10:19 a.m. This repo has been linked 204 different CVEs too.
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nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHub

📡 PoC auto collect from GitHub. ⚠️ Be careful Malware.

security cve exploit poc vulnerability

Updated: 5 hours, 5 minutes ago
7218 stars 1202 fork 1202 watcher
Born at : Dec. 8, 2019, 1:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 805 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2025-24085 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

  • The Hacker News
Apple Patches CVE-2025-43300 Zero-Day in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Aug 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero-Day Apple has released security updates to address a security flaw impacting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said has come under active exploitation i ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 21, 2025 (5 days, 6 hours ago)
  • BleepingComputer
Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack." Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, this security flaw is caused by an ou ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 20, 2025 (5 days, 16 hours ago)
  • BleepingComputer
Apple patches security flaw exploited in Chrome zero-day attacks

Apple has released security updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that has been exploited in zero-day attacks targeting Google Chrome users. Tracked as CVE-2025-6558, the security bug is du ... Read more

Published Date: Jul 30, 2025 (3 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • seclists.org
: "Glass Cage" – Zero-Click iMessage → Persistent iOS Compromise + Bricking (CVE-2025-24085 / 24201, CNVD-2025-07885)

Full Disclosure mailing list archives From: josephgoyd via Fulldisclosure <fulldisclosure () seclists org> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:48:51 +0000 "Glass Cage" – Sophisticated Zero-Click iMessage Exploi ... Read more

Published Date: Jun 18, 2025 (2 months, 1 week ago)
  • The Hacker News
Apple Patches Two Actively Exploited iOS Flaws Used in Sophisticated Targeted Attacks

Apple on Wednesday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS Sequoia, tvOS, and visionOS to address two security flaws that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerab ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 17, 2025 (4 months, 1 week ago)
  • BleepingComputer
Apple fixes two zero-days exploited in targeted iPhone attacks

Apple released emergency security updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were used in an "extremely sophisticated attack" against specific targets' iPhones. The two vulnerabilities are in ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 16, 2025 (4 months, 1 week ago)
  • seclists.org
APPLE-SA-03-31-2025-9 macOS Ventura 13.7.5

Full Disclosure mailing list archives From: Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure <fulldisclosure () seclists org> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:08:47 -0700 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SH ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 03, 2025 (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • seclists.org
APPLE-SA-03-31-2025-8 macOS Sonoma 14.7.5

Full Disclosure mailing list archives From: Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure <fulldisclosure () seclists org> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:08:19 -0700 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SH ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 03, 2025 (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • seclists.org
APPLE-SA-03-31-2025-4 iPadOS 17.7.6

Full Disclosure mailing list archives From: Apple Product Security via Fulldisclosure <fulldisclosure () seclists org> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:06:04 -0700 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SH ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 03, 2025 (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • TheCyberThrone
Apple Backported Three Vulnerabilities

Apple recently backported fixes for three actively exploited vulnerabilities to older devices and operating system versions.1. CVE-2025-24085: Core Media Privilege EscalationDescription:CVE-2025-24085 ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 02, 2025 (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • The Register
Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSes

Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent rele ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 02, 2025 (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • BleepingComputer
Apple backports zero-day patches to older iPhones and Macs

Apple has released security updates that backport fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities that were exploited as zero-days to older versions of its operating systems. At the same time, the consum ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 01, 2025 (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • The Hacker News
Apple Backports Critical Fixes for 3 Recent 0-Days Impacting Older iOS and macOS Devices

Mobile Security / Vulnerability Apple on Monday backported fixes for three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild to older models and previous versions of the operating s ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 01, 2025 (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • Cyber Security News
Apple Warns of Three 0-Day Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in Attacks

Apple has issued an urgent security advisory concerning three critical zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2025-24200, CVE-2025-24201, and CVE-2025-24085 that have been actively exploited in sophisticated at ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 01, 2025 (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • Daily CyberSecurity
Apple Backports Fixes for Three Actively Exploited Zero-Days Targeting Older Devices

Apple has released backported security patches for older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, addressing three zero-day vulnerabilities that have been exploited in targeted attacks. The flaws, original ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 01, 2025 (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • TheCyberThrone
CISA KEV Catalog Update Part I – March 2025

On March 3, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by adding several new vulnerabilities, including those affecting ... Read more

Published Date: Mar 04, 2025 (5 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • The Hacker News
Apple Patches Actively Exploited iOS Zero-Day CVE-2025-24200 in Emergency Update

Zero-Day / Mobile Security Apple on Monday released out-of-band security updates to address a security flaw in iOS and iPadOS that it said has been exploited in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier C ... Read more

Published Date: Feb 11, 2025 (6 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • BleepingComputer
Apple fixes zero-day exploited in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks

Apple has released emergency security updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability that the company says was exploited in targeted and "extremely sophisticated" attacks. "A physical attack may disable US ... Read more

Published Date: Feb 10, 2025 (6 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • Help Net Security
February 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: New directions for AI development

The new year has started with a whirlwind of activity, and one of the hottest topics in the news is the increasing emphasis on AI. DeepSeek ad Stargate DeepSeek took the world by storm as millions of ... Read more

Published Date: Feb 10, 2025 (6 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • TheCyberThrone
TheCyberThrone Security Weekly Review – February 01, 2025

Welcome to TheCyberThrone  cybersecurity week in review will be posted covering the important security happenings. This review is for the week ending Saturday, February 01, 2025.Cyber Incidents at Tat ... Read more

Published Date: Feb 03, 2025 (6 months, 3 weeks ago)

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2025-24085 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 21, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Mar. 13, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-416
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 28, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Feb. 18, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Removed CWE CWE-416
  • CVE CISA KEV Update by 9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725

    Jan. 30, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Date Added 2025-01-29
    Added Due Date 2025-02-19
    Added Vulnerability Name Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability
    Added Required Action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 29, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE NIST CWE-416
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 18.3 *cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 18.3 *cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 15.3 *cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 18.3 *cpe:2.3:o:apple:visionos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 2.3 *cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 11.3
    Changed Reference Type https://support.apple.com/en-us/122066 No Types Assigned https://support.apple.com/en-us/122066 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068 No Types Assigned https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://support.apple.com/en-us/122071 No Types Assigned https://support.apple.com/en-us/122071 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://support.apple.com/en-us/122072 No Types Assigned https://support.apple.com/en-us/122072 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://support.apple.com/en-us/122073 No Types Assigned https://support.apple.com/en-us/122073 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Jan. 29, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Removed CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-416
    Removed CWE CWE-276
  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Jan. 28, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-276
  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jan. 27, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in visionOS 2.3, iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3. 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.
    Added Reference https://support.apple.com/en-us/122066
    Added Reference https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068
    Added Reference https://support.apple.com/en-us/122071
    Added Reference https://support.apple.com/en-us/122072
    Added Reference https://support.apple.com/en-us/122073
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 7.8
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact