Apple macOS up to 18.4 App information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Apple macOS. This impacts an unknown function of the component App. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-31255. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple macOS. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component App. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in tvOS 26, macOS Sonoma 14.8, macOS Sequoia 15.7, watchOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. An app may be able to access sensitive user data.

It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-31255 since 03/27/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 265371 (macOS 26.x < 26.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (125110)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 26.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (265371) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2061). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Apple iOS
• Apple iPadOS

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• macOS

Version

• 5.3
• 5.11
• 10.8.5
• 10.9.5
• 10.10
• 10.10.1
• 10.10.2
• 10.10.3
• 10.12
• 10.12.0
• 10.12.1
• 10.12.2
• 10.12.3
• 10.12.4
• 10.12.5
• 10.12.6
• 10.13
• 10.13.0
• 10.13.1
• 10.13.2
• 10.13.3
• 10.13.4
• 10.13.5
• 10.13.5 2018-003
• 10.13.6
• 10.14
• 10.14.1
• 10.14.2
• 10.14.4
• 10.14.5
• 10.14.6
• 10.15
• 10.15.0
• 10.15.1
• 10.15.2
• 10.15.3
• 10.15.4
• 10.15.5
• 10.15.6
• 10.15.7
• 11.0.1
• 11.1
• 11.2
• 11.2.1
• 11.2.3
• 11.3
• 11.3.1
• 11.4
• 11.5
• 11.6
• 11.6.6
• 11.7
• 11.7.3
• 11.7.5
• 11.7.9
• 12.0.1
• 12.1
• 12.2
• 12.2.1
• 12.3
• 12.3.1
• 12.4
• 12.5
• 12.5.1
• 12.6
• 12.6.2
• 12.6.3
• 12.6.4
• 12.6.7
• 12.6.8
• 12.7
• 12.7.1
• 12.7.5
• 12.7.6
• 13
• 13.0
• 13.1
• 13.2
• 13.2.1
• 13.3
• 13.3.0
• 13.3.1
• 13.4
• 13.4.1
• 13.5
• 13.6
• 13.6.0
• 13.6.1
• 13.6.2
• 13.6.4
• 13.6.5
• 13.6.7
• 13.6.8
• 13.7
• 14
• 14.0
• 14.1
• 14.2
• 14.3
• 14.4
• 14.5
• 14.6
• 14.7
• 14.8
• 15
• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.3
• 15.4
• 15.5
• 15.6
• 15.7
• 16.7
• 17.4
• 17.5
• 18
• 18.1
• 18.2
• 18.4

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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