Vulnerability · Published Dec 12, 2025 · Assigned by apple

CVE-2025-43511

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 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.8% 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 26.2, iOS 18.7.2 and iPadOS 18.7.2, iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2, macOS Tahoe 26.2, visionOS 26.2, watchOS 26.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process 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-2025-43511
Debian:13webkit2gtk2.50.6-1~deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43511
Debian:13webkit2gtk2.50.6-1~deb13u1DSA-6172-1
Debian:14webkit2gtk2.50.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43511
Debian:12wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-43511
Debian:13wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-43511
Debian:14wpewebkit2.50.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43511
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-2025-43511
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSqtwebkit-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43511
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwebkit2gtkno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43511
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSwebkit2gtk2.52.3-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43511
Ubuntu:25.10webkit2gtk2.52.3-0ubuntu0.25.10.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43511
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwpewebkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43511

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Apple Safari 0 – before 26.2
Apple iOS and iPadOS 0 – before 18.7.20 – before 26.2
Apple macOS 0 – before 26.2
Apple visionOS 0 – before 26.2
Apple watchOS 0 – before 26.2

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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