CVE-2025-43529
8.8, high Known exploitedApple Multiple Products Use-After-Free WebKit Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 8.8, high high CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 9% higher than 95.1% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 17 Dec 202510 months ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 15 Dec 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 5 Jan 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 use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. 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, tvOS 26.2, visionOS 26.2, watchOS 26.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary 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 before iOS 26. CVE-2025-14174 was also issued in response to this report.
Details
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- Safari
- Weakness
- CWE-416 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 7 Oct 2026
- Assigner
- product-security@apple.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 8
Advisories 7
- support.apple.com /en-us/125884 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125885 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125886 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125889 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125890 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125891 (opens in a new tab)
- support.apple.com /en-us/125892 (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-2025-43510 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
- 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 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.