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.
CVE-2025-24085
Score elevated to 10.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-01-29), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 10.0 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 10.0
- EG Score
- 10.0(high)
- EG Risk
- 100(Act)EG Risk 100/100SSVC: Act
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity100% × 45%Exploitation100% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Fix now — active exploitation, automatable, high impact. - EPSS PROB
- 19%
- EPSS %ILE
- 97%
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
Published
January 27, 2025
Last Modified
April 3, 2026
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Jul 25, 2026Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-03-31-2025-4 iPadOS 17.7.6
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/5Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-03-31-2025-9 macOS Ventura 13.7.5
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Apr/10About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.7.5 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122375About the security content of macOS Sonoma 14.7.5 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122374About the security content of iPadOS 17.7.6 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122372About the security content of visionOS 2.3 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122073About the security content of tvOS 18.3 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122072About the security content of watchOS 11.3 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122071About the security content of macOS Sequoia 15.3 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122068About the security content of iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/122066Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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Publicly available exploits
(2 references)Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 GitHub PoC) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- GitHub PoCJGoyd/Glass-Cage-iOS18-CVE-2025-24085-CVE-2025-24201First seen Aug 23, 2025
Glass Cage is a zero-click PNG-based RCE chain in iOS 18.2.1, bypassing LockDown mode protection by exploiting ImageIO (CVE-2025-43300), then WebKit(CVE-2025-24201) and Core Media(CVE-2025-24085) to achieve sandbox escape, kernel-level access, and device bricking. Triggered via iMessage, it enables full compromise with no user interaction.
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-52316First seen Jun 5, 2025
macOS LaunchDaemon iOS 17.2 - Privilege Escalation
Open source ↗
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