Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-43223

High

Published: 30 July 2025

Published
30 July 2025
Modified
02 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0065 71.2th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-43223 is a high-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 28.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, iPadOS 17.7.9, macOS Sequoia 15.6, macOS Sonoma 14.7.7, macOS Ventura 13.7.7, tvOS 18.6, visionOS 2.6, watchOS 11.6. A non-privileged user may…

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be able to modify restricted network settings.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 17.7.7 · 18.0 — 18.6
apple
iphone os
≤ 18.6
apple
macos
≤ 13.7.7 · 14.0 — 14.7.7 · 15.0 — 15.6
apple
tvos
≤ 18.6
apple
visionos
≤ 2.6
apple
watchos
≤ 11.6

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.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

References