CVE-2025-24085
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.
do firstApply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Can a WAF block it? No. The vulnerability involves a use after free issue that a malicious application could exploit to elevate privileges. This requires local execution on the device, not an HTTP request, so a web application firewall cannot block it.
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Based on an AI reading of the CVE description, and no vendor rule found yet. We check Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud Armor and Azure; for Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, F5, ask your vendor.
Is CVE-2025-24085 being exploited?
Yes. CVE-2025-24085 appears in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed and reported. Treat it as active rather than theoretical, and patch it ahead of higher-scoring vulnerabilities that carry no exploitation evidence.
How severe is CVE-2025-24085?
CVE-2025-24085 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 10.0. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2025-24085?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2025-24085. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2025-24085 affect?
CVE-2025-24085 affects apple:ipados, apple:iphone_os, apple:macos, apple:tvos, and 2 further products or versions. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
- affected< 18.3
- affected< 17.7.6
- affected< 13.7.5
- affected< 14.7.5
- affected< 15.3
- affected< 18.3
- affected< 2.3
- affected< 11.3
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.
public exploits
Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB · 1 GitHub proof of concept
- macOS LaunchDaemon iOS 17.2 - Privilege Escalation · local · 5 Jun 2025
Listed so you can judge urgency, not as a recommendation to run anything. GitHub “proofs of concept” are unvetted: some are fake or carry malware. Exploit-DB marks the entries its staff verified.
cisa ssvc
- exploitation
- active
- automatable
- yes
- technical impact
- total
Assessed by CISA 12 Nov 2025 (SSVC 2.0.3).
timeline
- 27 Jan 2025Published
- 29 Jan 2025Added to CISA KEV (exploited in the wild) · 1 day later
- 19 Feb 2025CISA remediation due date (US federal agencies) · 21 days later
- 5 Jun 2025First public exploit or proof of concept · 106 days (about 4 months) later
- 12 Nov 2025CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation active · 161 days (about 5 months) later
- 2 Apr 2026CVE record last updated · 141 days (about 5 months) later
- 2 Nov 2026Analysed by vulneraibility.com · 214 days (about 7 months) later
- Linksupport.apple.com /en-us/122066
- Linksupport.apple.com /en-us/122068
- Linksupport.apple.com /en-us/122071
- Linksupport.apple.com /en-us/122072
- Linksupport.apple.com /en-us/122073
- Linksupport.apple.com /en-us/122372
- Linksupport.apple.com /en-us/122374
- Linksupport.apple.com /en-us/122375
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- Linkcisa.gov /known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-24085
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/30
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/31
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/23
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/1
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/19
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/10
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/9
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/5
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/19
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/15
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/13
- Linkseclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Jan/12
- Linkgithub.com /JGoyd/Glass-Cage-iOS18-CVE-2025-24085-CVE-2025-24201
- Linkgithub.com /cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/194
sources
- CVE List (CVE.org): description, affected versions, references; CVE Terms of Use
- NVD: CVSS and CPE data
- CISA KEV catalog: exploitation, date added, due date
- CISA Vulnrichment (ADP): SSVC decision points
- FIRST EPSS: exploit probability and percentile
- Exploit-DB: published exploits
- PoC-in-GitHub: GitHub repositories that claim a proof of concept
- Summary, impact and triage tags: written by our AI analysis pipeline from the sources above. Check them against the sources.