Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-24252

High

Published: 29 April 2025

Published
29 April 2025
Modified
02 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0008 23.5th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24252 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 23.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, iPadOS 17.7.6, macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.5, tvOS 18.4, visionOS 2.4. An attacker on the local network…

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may be able to corrupt process memory.

CWE(s)
CWE-416

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 17.7.6 · 18.0 — 18.4
apple
iphone os
≤ 18.4
apple
macos
≤ 13.7.5 · 14.0 — 14.7.5 · 15.0 — 15.4
apple
tvos
≤ 18.4
apple
visionos
≤ 2.4

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.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References