CVE-2025-24085
Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
CISA 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
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.
Severity
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitation Context
as of October 14, 2026- CISA added CVE-2025-24085 to the KEV catalog 2 days after its CVE record was published. The median for entries added in 2025 is 26 days.
- It is one of 95 Apple entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 9 added in 2025.
- Its current EPSS score (17.5%) is higher than that of 33% of CISA KEV entries.
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | Apple iOS and iPadOS | 0 to <18.3 |
| Apple | Apple iPadOS | 0 to <17.7.6 |
| Apple | Apple macOS | 0 to <13.7.5 0 to <14.7.5 0 to <15.3 |
| Apple | Apple tvOS | 0 to <18.3 |
| Apple | Apple visionOS | 0 to <2.3 |
| Apple | Apple watchOS | 0 to <11.3 |
References
22 Links- 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://support.apple.com/en-us/122372
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122374
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/122375
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/30
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/31
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/23
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/1
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/19
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/10
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/9
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/5
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/19
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/15
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/13
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/12
- https://github.com/JGoyd/Glass-Cage-iOS18-CVE-2025-24085-CVE-2025-24201
- https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/194
Record Details
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