CVE-2025-43500 is a high-severity privacy vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) affecting Apple's iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and watchOS, where an application could access sensitive user data due to insufficient handling of user preferences. This issue has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, allowing unauthorized access to confidential information without requiring user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability. Apple has addressed this privacy issue with improved handling of user preferences in iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, visionOS 26.1, and watchOS 26.1.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 26.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 26.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 26.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:visionos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 26.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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