Apple iOS/iPadOS Floats type confusion

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apple iOS and iPadOS. This affects an unknown part of the component Floats Handler. The manipulation leads to type confusion. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-24213. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS and iPadOS (version now known) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Floats Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a type confusion vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-843. The product allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

This issue was addressed with improved handling of floats. This issue is fixed in tvOS 18.4, Safari 18.4, iPadOS 17.7.6, iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4. A type confusion issue could lead to memory corruption.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-24213 since 01/17/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/25/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 234140 (Debian dsa-5899 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (234140) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0728). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Gentoo Linux
• RESF Rocky Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Open Source WebKitGTK

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Type

• Smartphone Operating System

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• iOS
• iPadOS

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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