Apple visionOS Web memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Apple visionOS. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Web Handler. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-24189. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple visionOS (version now known). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Web Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.3, visionOS 2.3, iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption.

The advisory is available at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-24189 since 01/17/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/26/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 252299 (Amazon Linux 2 : webkitgtk4 (ALAS-2025-2970)), 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 (252299) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1703). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Fedora Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• IGEL OS
• Open Source WebKitGTK

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• visionOS

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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