CVE-2025-31201: Apple Multiple Products Arbitrary Read and Write Vulnerability

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2025-04-17. EPSS: 14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4.1 and iPadOS 18.4.1, macOS Sequoia 15.4.1, tvOS 18.4.1, visionOS 2.4.1. An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 18.4.1 (fixed in 18.4.1)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 18.4.1 (fixed in 18.4.1)
• Apple macOS: from 15.0, before 15.4.1 (fixed in 15.4.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 18.4.1 (fixed in 18.4.1)
• Apple visionOS: before 2.4.1 (fixed in 2.4.1)

Published 2025-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.