How severe is CVE-2025-24200?

CVE-2025-24200 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.1 (MEDIUM). EPSS estimates a 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2025-24200: Apple iOS and iPadOS Incorrect Authorization

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Apple iOS and iPadOS Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2025-02-12

Remediation due

2025-03-05

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/122173 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24200

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA6.1 MEDIUM

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Apple	iOS and iPadOS	0 to <15.8.4 0 to <16.7.11 0 to <18.3.1
Apple	iPadOS	0 to <17.7.5

References

7 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2025-02-10

Last updated

2026-04-02

Assigner (CNA)

apple

Credited to

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