CVE-2025-43510
7.8, high Known exploitedApple Multiple Products Improper Locking Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 7.8, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.4% higher than 27.6% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 12 Dec 202510 months ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 20 Mar 2026. US federal agencies had to remediate by 3 Apr 2026, 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 lock state checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.7.2 and iPadOS 18.7.2, iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1, macOS Sequoia 15.7.2, macOS Sonoma 14.8.2, macOS Tahoe 26.1, tvOS 26.1, visionOS 26.1, watchOS 26.1. A malicious application may cause unexpected changes in memory shared between processes.
Details
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- iOS and iPadOS
- Weakness
- CWE-667 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 7 Oct 2026
- Assigner
- product-security@apple.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 10
Advisories 8
- support.apple.com /en-us/125632 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125633 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125634 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125635 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125636 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125637 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125638 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125639 (opens in a new tab)
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-2025-43520 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
- CVE-2025-31277 Apple Multiple Products Buffer Overflow Vulnerability KEV EPSS 2% 8.8, high
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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 18 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.