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Vulnerability · Published Nov 4, 2025 · Assigned by apple

CVE-2025-43457

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity use-after-free in iOS and iPadOS from Apple. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 50.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.1, iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, visionOS 26.1, watchOS 26.1. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk32.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk32.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk32.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-devel2.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-devel2.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-devel2.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-jsc2.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc2.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc2.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
Debian:12webkit2gtk2.50.6-1~deb12u1DSA-6172-1
Debian:12webkit2gtk2.50.6-1~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43457
Debian:13webkit2gtk2.50.6-1~deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43457
Debian:13webkit2gtk2.50.6-1~deb13u1DSA-6172-1
Debian:14webkit2gtk2.50.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43457
Debian:12wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-43457
Debian:13wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-43457
Debian:14wpewebkit2.50.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43457
Rocky Linux:8webkit2gtk30:2.52.3-1.el8_10RLSA-2026:10702
Rocky Linux:9webkit2gtk30:2.52.3-0.el9_7.1RLSA-2026:9692
Rocky Linux:9webkit2gtk30:2.52.3-1.el9_8RLSA-2026:19206
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSqtwebkit-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43457
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSqtwebkit-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwebkit2gtkno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43457
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSwebkit2gtk2.52.3-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43457
Ubuntu:25.10webkit2gtk2.52.3-0ubuntu0.25.10.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43457
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwpewebkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43457

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Apple Safari 0 – before 26.1
Apple iOS and iPadOS 0 – before 26.1
Apple macOS 0 – before 26.1
Apple visionOS 0 – before 26.1
Apple watchOS 0 – before 26.1

Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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