Threats / Apple / CVE-2025-24085
CVE-2025-24085
· EUVD no mirror located
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Verified 2026-08-04
Apple Multiple Products vulnerability
Apple products contain a use-after-free vulnerability allowing malicious applications to elevate privileges on affected systems.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
A use-after-free flaw in Apple iOS, macOS, and related products enables privilege escalation when a malicious app exploits freed memory. Active exploitation in the wild increases risk for users running unpatched versions.
CISA KEV Yes · 2025-01-294EPSS 0.17323 (verify live)5Exploit Public PoC6CVSS 10 (CISA)3CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total3
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Public proof-of-concept exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
14 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-01-29).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.17323 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 10 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: Apple, Multiple Products. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CISA-assigned via the ADP container (CVE.org), version 3.1; the CNA left no metrics, so CISA's own score is used ahead of NVD.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-416 Use After Free — weakness family: Memory safety.CWE assignment from the public NVD record (may be stale); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 2 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a malicious application that references memory after it has been freed by the operating system.
Business
User devices running unpatched Apple software become vulnerable to unauthorized code execution at elevated privilege levels.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I distribute the malicious app through available channels, relying on users to install it on their systems.
Business
Attack surface expands across Apple's installed base as the vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges after the use-after-free condition is triggered.
Business
Compromised devices can be used for data theft, lateral movement, or further system compromise without user awareness.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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