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CVE-2025-31201

9.8, critical Known exploited

Apple Multiple Products Arbitrary Read and Write Vulnerability

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CVSS
9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
14% higher than 96.5% 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

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.

Details

Vendor
Apple
Product
iOS and iPadOS
Weakness
CWE-1220 (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 12

Exploit code 6

Advisories 4

Other references 2

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 hold

Same 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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Is CVE-2025-31201 in your network?

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CVE-2025-31201 is in the CISA catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities: attackers are already exploiting it.

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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 16 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.