CVE-2025-43423
Info Disclosure in Apple Ipados ≤ 26.1
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NSummary
CVE-2025-43423 is a low-severity Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File (CWE-532) vulnerability in Apple Ipados. Its CVSS base score is 2.0 (Low).
Operationally, ranked at the 13th 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 AU-3 (Content of Audit Records) and AU-9 (Protection of Audit Information) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-37673
Vulnerability Data
A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.7.2 and iPadOS 18.7.2, iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1, macOS Sequoia 15.7.2, macOS Tahoe 26.1, visionOS 26.1. An attacker with physical access to an unlocked…
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device paired with a Mac may be able to view sensitive user information in system logging.
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly requires audit records to contain only the minimum information needed, preventing sensitive data from being written into system logs.
Requires cryptographic or access-control protection of audit information, blocking an attacker who has obtained an unlocked device from reading the logs.
Mandates controls to prevent information leakage through system mechanisms such as logging, addressing the root cause of the redaction failure.
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.
Secure SDLC practices directly prohibit writing sensitive data to logs; eliminating the weakness satisfies only one narrow slice of the control.
Log generation configuration can and should exclude sensitive data, but the control statement focuses on availability rather than content filtering.
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.
Requiring de-identification and privacy controls before logs leave the organization reduces the chance that sensitive data inadvertently captured in logs becomes exposed to external parties.
By defining what records must be kept, where, and for how long, the control discourages the inadvertent inclusion of sensitive information in logs or other externally accessible files that fall outside the formal record system.
Mandating deletion of temporary files and logs that may contain sensitive information prevents those artifacts from remaining accessible after the data is no longer needed.
When log entries are produced from masked data sets, the control prevents the inadvertent insertion of sensitive values into externally accessible log files.
DLP inspection of logs and file transfers can detect and block the inadvertent placement of sensitive tokens or credentials into externally accessible log files before they are written or transmitted.
Requiring restrictions on free-text fields and proper error-message handling stops developers from embedding or leaking sensitive data into logs or diagnostic output.