CVSS 3.1
10.0 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2025-43300
Critical (10.0) in Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. In CISA KEV since 2025-08-21. EPSS 65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5, iOS 16.7.12 and iPadOS 16.7.12, iOS 18.6.2 and iPadOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 17.7.10, macOS Sequoia 15.6.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.8, macOS Ventura 13.7.8. Processing a malicious image file may result in memory corruption. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.
Severity
- EPSS
- 65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CISA KEV
- listed 2025-08-21, due 2025-09-11
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apple:ipados
- apple:iphone_os
- apple:macos