Overview
The CVE-2025-43343 is a critical vulnerability affecting a wide array of Apple operating systems. This vulnerability stems from improper memory handling, which can lead to an unexpected process crash when processing maliciously crafted web content. With a CVSS Severity Score of 9.8, this vulnerability is considered critical, due to the potential risk of a system compromise or data leakage. Given the widespread use of these systems, a significant number of users and organizations are potentially at risk, making this vulnerability a high priority for mitigation.
Vulnerability Summary
CVE ID: CVE-2025-43343
Severity: Critical (9.8 CVSS Score)
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Required
Impact: System compromise and potential data leakage
Affected Products
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Product | Affected Versions
tvOS | Pre-26
Safari | Pre-26
visionOS | Pre-26
watchOS | Pre-26
macOS Tahoe | Pre-26
iOS | Pre-26
iPadOS | Pre-26
How the Exploit Works
The vulnerability is based on the improper handling of memory when processing specially crafted web content. An attacker can exploit this flaw by inducing a user to browse a malicious website, triggering a crash in the web content processing function. This crash can then be leveraged to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, potentially leading to a full system compromise or data leakage.
Conceptual Example Code
The following is a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited. This is a sample HTTP request containing a malicious payload that could be used to trigger the vulnerability:
GET /malicious.html HTTP/1.1
Host: malicious.example.com
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36In this hypothetical scenario, the file `malicious.html` would contain the crafted web content designed to trigger the memory handling flaw and crash the process.
Mitigation Guidance
Users and administrators are strongly urged to apply the patch provided by the vendor. The issue is fixed in tvOS 26, Safari 26, visionOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, and iPadOS 26. As a temporary mitigation, a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can be used to block or filter out crafted web content designed to exploit this vulnerability.
