Apple macOS/Pages/iOS/iPadOS up to 26.0 Pages Document out-of-bounds

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Apple macOS, Pages, iOS and iPadOS up to 26.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Pages Document Handler. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-46316. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple macOS, Pages, iOS and iPadOS up to 26.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Pages Document Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1, Pages 15.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1. Processing a maliciously crafted Pages document may result in unexpected termination or disclosure of process memory.

The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-46316 since 04/22/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/14/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 298993 (Apple Pages < 15.1 Out-of-Bounds Read (HT126255)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 26.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (298993). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Word Processing Software

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• Apple

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• iOS
• iPadOS
• macOS
• Pages

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• 26.0

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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