CVE-2025-31200
9.8, critical Known exploitedApple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 21% higher than 97.5% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 16 Apr 2025a year ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 17 Apr 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 8 May 2025, a deadline that has passed.
Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. 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, watchOS 11.5. Processing an audio stream in a maliciously crafted media file may result in code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS released before iOS 18.4.1.
Details
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- iOS and iPadOS
- Weakness
- CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 17 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- product-security@apple.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 15
Exploit code 7
- seclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/26 (opens in a new tab)
- seclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/14 (opens in a new tab)
- seclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/May/10 (opens in a new tab)
- seclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/0 (opens in a new tab)
- seclists.org /fulldisclosure/2025/Oct/4 (opens in a new tab)
- blog.noahhw.dev /posts/cve-2025-31200/ (opens in a new tab)
- github.com /JGoyd/iOS-Attack-Chain-CVE-2025-31200-CVE-2025-31201/blob/main/Remote%20Crypto%20Attack%20Chain%20.md (opens in a new tab)
Advisories 5
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
Other Apple CVEs
Every Apple CVE we holdSame vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.
- CVE-2026-86950 Apple Multiple Products Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 1% 8.8, high
- CVE-2026-65400 Apple macOS Improper Authentication Vulnerability KEV EPSS 2% 9.8, critical
- CVE-2026-20700 Apple Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerability KEV EPSS 1% 7.8, high
- CVE-2025-43529 Apple Multiple Products Use-After-Free WebKit Vulnerability KEV EPSS 9% 8.8, high
- CVE-2025-43510 Apple Multiple Products Improper Locking Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.4% 7.8, high
- CVE-2025-43520 Apple Multiple Products Classic Buffer Overflow Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.4% 5.5, medium
- CVE-2023-43000 Apple Multiple products Use-After-Free Vulnerability KEV EPSS 4% 8.8, high
- CVE-2025-43300 Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 32% 10, critical
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.