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Vulnerability · Published Dec 17, 2025 · Assigned by apple

CVE-2025-43541

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity type confusion 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 34.1% (higher than 98% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)34.1%top 1.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.2, iOS 18.7.3 and iPadOS 18.7.3, iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2, macOS Tahoe 26.2, visionOS 26.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk32.50.4-1.el8_10ALSA-2025:23663
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk32.50.4-1.el9_7ALSA-2025:23700
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-devel2.50.4-1.el8_10ALSA-2025:23663
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-devel2.50.4-1.el9_7ALSA-2025:23700
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-jsc2.50.4-1.el8_10ALSA-2025:23663
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc2.50.4-1.el9_7ALSA-2025:23700
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.50.4-1.el8_10ALSA-2025:23663
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.50.4-1.el9_7ALSA-2025:23700
Debian:12webkit2gtk2.50.4-1~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43541
Debian:12webkit2gtk2.50.4-1~deb12u1DSA-6083-1
Debian:13webkit2gtk2.50.4-1~deb13u1DSA-6083-1
Debian:13webkit2gtk2.50.4-1~deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43541
Debian:14webkit2gtk2.50.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43541
Debian:12wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-43541
Debian:13wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-43541
Debian:14wpewebkit2.50.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43541
Rocky Linux:8webkit2gtk30:2.50.4-1.el8_10RLSA-2025:23663
Rocky Linux:9webkit2gtk30:2.50.4-1.el9_7RLSA-2025:23700
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSqtwebkit-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43541
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSqtwebkit-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43541
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwebkit2gtk2.50.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1USN-7957-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwebkit2gtk2.50.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43541
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSwebkit2gtk2.50.4-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43541
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSwebkit2gtk2.50.4-0ubuntu0.24.04.1USN-7957-1
Ubuntu:25.10webkit2gtk2.50.4-0ubuntu0.25.10.1USN-7957-1
Ubuntu:25.10webkit2gtk2.50.4-0ubuntu0.25.10.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43541
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwpewebkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-43541

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Apple Safari 0 – before 26.2
Apple iOS and iPadOS 0 – before 18.7.30 – before 26.2
Apple macOS 0 – before 26.2
Apple visionOS 0 – before 26.2

Weakness: CWE-843 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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