Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-43357

Apple Ipados ≤ 26.0

Published
15 September 2025
Modified
26 May 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 3.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 12th percentile
Risk Priority 15 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-43357 is a low-severity Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor (CWE-359) vulnerability in Apple Ipados. Its CVSS base score is 3.3 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 12th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to PE-19 (Information Leakage) and SI-19 (De-identification) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.7 and iPadOS 18.7, iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, macOS Sequoia 15.7, macOS Sonoma 14.8, macOS Tahoe 26. An app may be able to…

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fingerprint the user.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2025-43439Same product: Apple Ipados
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CVE-2025-43217Same product: Apple Ipados
CVE-2025-43452Same product: Apple Ipados
CVE-2026-28963Same product: Apple Ipados

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 26.0
apple
iphone os
≤ 26.0
apple
macos
≤ 26.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • PE-19 Information Leakage
  • SI-19 De-identification
  • SI-15 Information Output Filtering
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 2 hardening rules · 2 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V10.3.5
  • V10.7.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly requires controls to prevent leakage of sensitive information that enables user fingerprinting via inadequate redaction.

prevent

Mandates de-identification or redaction of PII so that residual data cannot be used by an app to fingerprint the user.

prevent

Requires output filtering on applications to block exposure of sensitive information that the CVE shows was insufficiently redacted.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

RC.CO-04 partial match
degrades

CWE-359 does not impair RC.CO-04's ability to issue approved public recovery updates, yet any resulting PII exposure can partially undermine the outcome's overall efficacy and trust.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

prevents

Masking or anonymizing personal identifiers limits the amount of private personal information that can be disclosed through application outputs or logs.

prevents

Monitoring and quarantining outbound messages that contain personal or private data directly reduces the chance that such information will be disclosed to unauthorized recipients.

prevents

The explicit prohibition on copying personally identifiable information into development and test environments directly lowers the exposure of private personal data to staff or processes that should not see it.

mitigates

Labeling, chain-of-custody, and access-control requirements limit the exposure of private personal information during any transfer method.

prevents

Mandating privacy procedures and a designated privacy officer helps ensure that private personal information is not disclosed without proper authorization or necessity.

mitigates

The agreements impose enforceable restrictions on the handling of private personal information, thereby decreasing the risk that such data will be exposed to unauthorized parties.

References