Apple iOS/iPadOS up to 18.7.1 denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Apple iOS and iPadOS. Impacted is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-43365. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS and iPadOS. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. An unprivileged process may be able to terminate a root processes.

The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-43365 since 04/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/04/2025).

Upgrading to version 26.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Smartphone Operating System

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• iOS
• iPadOS

Version

• 10.15.0
• 12.4.7
• 12.5.2
• 12.5.3
• 12.7
• 13.0
• 13.0.1
• 13.1
• 13.1.1
• 13.2
• 13.3
• 13.3.1
• 13.4
• 13.4.1
• 13.5
• 13.5.1
• 13.6
• 13.7
• 14.0
• 14.2
• 14.3
• 14.4
• 14.4.1
• 14.4.2
• 14.5
• 14.5.0
• 14.5.1
• 14.6
• 14.7
• 14.7.1
• 14.8
• 15
• 15.0
• 15.0.1
• 15.0.2
• 15.1
• 15.2
• 15.2.1
• 15.3
• 15.3.1
• 15.4
• 15.4.1
• 15.5
• 15.6
• 15.6.1
• 15.7
• 15.7.1
• 15.7.4
• 16.2
• 16.3
• 16.3.1
• 16.4
• 16.4.1
• 16.5
• 16.5.1
• 16.6
• 16.6.1
• 16.7
• 16.7.2
• 16.7.3
• 16.7.6
• 17
• 17.0
• 17.0.3
• 17.1
• 17.2
• 17.3
• 17.4
• 17.4.0
• 17.5
• 17.7
• 17.7.4
• 17.7.5
• 18
• 18.0
• 18.0.1
• 18.1
• 18.2
• 18.3
• 18.3.0
• 18.3.1
• 18.4
• 18.5
• 18.6
• 18.7
• 18.7.1

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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