CVE-2025-24224
Published: 30 July 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-24224 is a high-severity Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions (CWE-754) vulnerability in Apple Ipados. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 20.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-24224 is an improper input validation issue (CWE-754) affecting multiple Apple operating systems. The flaw was addressed through improved checks and impacts iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5, iPadOS 17.7.9, macOS Sequoia 15.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.7, tvOS 18.5, visionOS 2.5, and watchOS 11.5. It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.5 with network attack vector, low complexity, and high availability impact.
A remote attacker with no privileges or user interaction required can send specially crafted network traffic to trigger unexpected system termination on an affected device. The attack requires no authentication and can be launched over the network, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.
Apple security advisories for the listed platform versions state that the issue is resolved by applying the corresponding updates. Administrators should install iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, iPadOS 17.7.9, macOS Sequoia 15.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.7, tvOS 18.5, visionOS 2.5, or watchOS 11.5 as soon as possible.
EPSS remains low and unchanged at 0.0126 with no observed rise after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-23113
Vulnerability details
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5, iPadOS 17.7.9, macOS Sequoia 15.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.7, tvOS 18.5, visionOS 2.5, watchOS 11.5. A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected…
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system termination.
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Requires detection and response to audit logging failures as an unusual or exceptional condition.
Implements detection of unusual or exceptional conditions followed by safe mode entry, reducing the window for exploitation of unchecked conditions.
Training ensures users perform required checks for unusual or exceptional conditions as part of contingency roles, limiting attacker leverage from skipped validations.
IR testing directly validates checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that could indicate security incidents.
Requires ongoing monitoring of organization-defined metrics and analysis, enabling checks for unusual or exceptional conditions.
Security testing routinely checks for unusual or exceptional inputs/conditions, identifying missing validation steps that flaw remediation then resolves.
Requires detection of unusual conditions followed by a controlled transition to the defined failure state.
MTTF determination forces explicit checks for conditions that precede predictable component failure.