Apple visionOS Web memory corruption

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Apple visionOS. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Web Handler. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-24223. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apple visionOS (the affected version is unknown). This affects an unknown code of the component Web Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in watchOS 11.5, tvOS 18.5, iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5, macOS Sequoia 15.5, visionOS 2.5, Safari 18.5. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-24223 since 01/17/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for 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 $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/19/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 236932 (Fedora 41 : webkitgtk (2025-c40948de3a)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (236932). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Operating System

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• Apple

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• visionOS

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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