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CVE record · CVE-2025-43220

Symlink following in Apple iPadOS and others

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0089 · 59th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: apple) at 29 Jul 2025, 23:29 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Apple iPadOS
  • affected before 17.7.9 custom
Apple macOS
  • affected before 13.7.7 custom
  • affected before 14.7.7 custom
  • affected before 15.6 custom
Identifiers
CVE-2025-43220
CNA
apple
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-59
Tags
Published
29 Jul 2025
Updated
2 Apr 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0089, the 59th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 29 Jul 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.