CVE-2025-24085: Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2025-01-29. EPSS: 17.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 17.7.6 (fixed in 17.7.6); from 18.0, before 18.3 (fixed in 18.3)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 18.3 (fixed in 18.3)
• Apple macOS: from 13.0, before 13.7.5 (fixed in 13.7.5); from 14.0, before 14.7.5 (fixed in 14.7.5); from 15.0, before 15.3 (fixed in 15.3)
• Apple tvOS: before 18.3 (fixed in 18.3)
• Apple visionOS: before 2.3 (fixed in 2.3)
• Apple watchOS: before 11.3 (fixed in 11.3)

Published 2025-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.