Apple visionOS up to 18.4 Caches information disclosure

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Apple visionOS. Affected is an unknown function of the component Caches Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-43356. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple visionOS. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown function of the component Caches Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

The issue was addressed with improved handling of caches. This issue is fixed in tvOS 26, Safari 26, iOS 18.7 and iPadOS 18.7, visionOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. A website may be able to access sensor information without user consent.

The advisory is shared for download at support.apple.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-43356 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 01/25/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 265819 (Fedora 42 : webkitgtk (2025-fcc043d407)), 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 (265819) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2104). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

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

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• visionOS

Version

• 1
• 1.0
• 1.0.2
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 2
• 2.1
• 12.7
• 13.7
• 14.5
• 14.7
• 15
• 15.3
• 16.7
• 17.5
• 18
• 18.1
• 18.2
• 18.4

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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