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Actively Exploited
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Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability (CVE-2025-24085)

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

Published Jan 27, 2025 · Updated May 17, 2026
Why patchRisk explained in plain English
Worst-case scenarioIf unpatched

A remote attacker, without authentication, can achieve full data confidentiality loss, arbitrary modification of data, complete denial of service or system unavailability. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2025-02-19 under CISA BOD 22-01.

How the attack worksNo clicks needed

This is a Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Apple Multiple Products. 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. Exploitation requires remote network access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and no user interaction required.

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Server compromised

Am I affected?Quick check

Probably yes if any of these apply:

●Apple Device Administrators
●Endpoint Security
●IT Security
●Running ipados: v < 17.7.6, 18.0 ≤ v < 18.3; iphone os: v < 18.3; macos: 13.0 ≤ v < 13.7.5, 14.0 ≤ v < 14.7.5, 15.0 ≤ v < 15.3; tvos: v < 18.3; visionos: v < 2.3; watchos: v < 11.3
Real-world incidentsWhat we've seen

CISA added this CVE to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-01-29 based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. Federal agencies required to remediate by 2025-02-19.

How to patch

Manual remediation steps

1
Identify affected hosts: query inventory for general installs in scope.
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Apply the vendor security update referenced in CVE-2025-24085's advisory. No specific KB/version is encoded yet — consult the linked MSRC/vendor URL.
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Verify the fix per the vendor's published verification steps.
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Document the remediation in your change ticket and re-scan with your vulnerability scanner to confirm closure.
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References

↗ CVE-2025-24085↗ MSRC Advisory↗ NVD↗ Vendor Advisory