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CVE-2025-43510

70
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-43510 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability affecting multiple Apple operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS. It allows a malicious application to cause unexpected changes in memory shared between processes. With a CVSS score of 7.8, exploitation requires local access and user interaction but has low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its inclusion in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and mentions of an "iOS Exploit Chain Adopted by Multiple Threat Actors." Despite active exploitation, no public exploit code has been identified, though it has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 18.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
26.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:26.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 18.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
26.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:26.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 14.0, < 14.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 20, 2026
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

cloud.google.com / blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain
Technical Description
cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
support.apple.com / en-us/125632
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/125633
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/125634
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/125635
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/125636
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/125637
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/125638
Release NotesVendor Advisory
support.apple.com / en-us/125639
Release NotesVendor Advisory