CVE-2025-43501: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.2, iOS 18.7.3 and iPadOS 18.7.3, iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2, macOS Tahoe 26.2, visionOS 26.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 18.7.3 (fixed in 18.7.3); from 26.0, before 26.2 (fixed in 26.2)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 18.7.3 (fixed in 18.7.3); from 26.0, before 26.2 (fixed in 26.2)
• Apple macOS: before 26.2 (fixed in 26.2)
• Apple Safari: before 26.2 (fixed in 26.2)
• Apple visionOS: before 26.2 (fixed in 26.2)

Published 2025-12-17. Last modified 2026-10-07.