{"id":39307,"date":"2025-05-18T05:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T05:24:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:24:11","slug":"cve-2025-31204-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-multiple-apple-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31204-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-multiple-apple-operating-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-31204: Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Multiple Apple Operating Systems<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This blog post aims to elucidate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-31204, that affects a wide swath of Apple products including watchOS, tvOS, iOS, iPadOS, macOS Sequoia, visionOS, and Safari. This vulnerability is particularly noteworthy due to its high severity score and the breadth of Apple devices it affects, making it a potential threat to millions of users worldwide. An understanding of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/enisa-unveils-european-vulnerability-database-an-in-depth-look-into-the-cybersecurity-landscape\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"46240\">vulnerability is crucial for both cybersecurity<\/a> professionals, who need to ensure they&#8217;ve deployed adequate defenses, and end-users, who need to understand the risks they face in their day-to-day interactions with their devices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-31204<br \/>\nSeverity: High (8.8 CVSS Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-24189-memory-corruption-vulnerability-due-to-maliciously-crafted-web-content-in-various-operating-systems\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"51722\">Maliciously crafted web content<\/a><br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-30165-potential-system-compromise-in-vllm-v0-engine\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"44004\">Potential system compromise<\/a> or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1309761015\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>watchOS | 11.5<br \/>\ntvOS | 18.5<br \/>\niOS | 18.5<br \/>\niPadOS | 18.5<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31244-file-quarantine-bypass-vulnerability-in-macos-sequoia-15-5\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"47854\">macOS Sequoia<\/a> | 15.5<br \/>\nvisionOS | 2.5<br \/>\nSafari | 18.5<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability hinges on a flaw in how the affected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-29972-server-side-request-forgery-vulnerability-in-azure-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"44741\">Apple operating<\/a> systems handle memory when processing web content. An attacker can create maliciously crafted web content that, when processed by the victim&#8217;s device, leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-49846-critical-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-ota-message-decoding\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"44891\">memory corruption<\/a>. This memory corruption can potentially be exploited by an attacker to execute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-25014-prototype-pollution-vulnerability-in-kibana-leading-to-arbitrary-code-execution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"44885\">arbitrary code<\/a>, leading to system compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1323129110\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>To illustrate this conceptually, consider an attacker who sends a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-4827-critical-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-totolink-http-post-request-handler\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"51723\">HTTP request<\/a> containing the malicious payload:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">GET \/malicious\/webcontent HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com\nUser-Agent: Mozilla\/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit\/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko)\n{ &quot;malicious_payload&quot;: &quot;...&quot; }<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the &#8216;malicious_payload&#8217; could be a specifically crafted sequence of commands that exploit the memory handling flaw in the operating system to cause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-24223-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-various-operating-systems-and-safari-browser\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"47375\">memory corruption<\/a>, and subsequently, a system compromise or data leak. This is a simplistic representation of the exploit and actual exploitation would likely involve more sophistication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview This blog post aims to elucidate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-31204, that affects a wide swath of Apple products including watchOS, tvOS, iOS, iPadOS, macOS Sequoia, visionOS, and Safari. 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