CVE-2025-24266: Buffer Overflow
Published Mar 31, 2025
·Updated
A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.5. An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination.
Other sources
Accessibility. A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.
— Apple
AccountPolicy. This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
— Apple
AirDrop. A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
— Apple
AirPlay. A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved input validation.
— Apple
AirPlay. A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks.
— Apple
Credit
Google V8 Security Team, Francisco Alonso@@revskills, an anonymous researcher, rheza@@ginggilBesel, PixiePoint Security, Andreas Hegenberg (folivora.AI GmbH), Uri Katz (Oligo Security), Wojciech Regula(SecuRing), Mickey Jin@@patch1t, Claudio Bozzato(Cisco Talos), Francesco Benvenuto(Cisco Talos), Bohdan Stasiuk@@bohdan_stasiuk, Hossein Lotfi@@hosselot(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), Yutong Xiu@@Sou1gh0st, Denis Tokarev@@illusionofcha0s, Kirin@@Pwnrin, CVE-2025-24085, Jonathan Bar Or@@yo_yo_yo_jbo(Microsoft), YingQi Shi@@Mas0nShi(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Minghao Lin@@Y1nKoc, Stephan Casas, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Kandji), Gergely Kalman@@gergely_kalman, CVE-2024-9681, Wang Yu(Cyberserval), Rodolphe BRUNETTI@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Pietro Francesco Tirenna(Shielder), Davide Silvetti(Shielder), Abdel Adim Oisfi(Shielder), Manuel Fernandez (Stackhopper Security), LFY@@secsys(Fudan University), Murray Mike(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), Anonymous(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), ABC Research s.r.o., Dave G.(Supernetworks), Michael (Biscuit) Thomas - @social.lol@@biscuit, Ian Beer(Google Project Zero), Kenneth Chew, Paweł Płatek (Trail(Bits), CVE-2025-27113, CVE-2024-56171, 风沐云烟@@binary_fmyy(Supernetworks), Minghao Lin@@Y1nKoc(Supernetworks), Alex Radocea(Supernetworks), Diamant Osmani & Valdrin Haliti [Kosovë], dbpeppe, Solitechworld, Pwn2car, Mickey Jin@@patch1t(Kandji), (Kandji), Pedro Tôrres@@t0rr3sp3dr0, Noah Gregory (wts.dev), Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e), Bing Shi(Alibaba Group), Wenchao Li(Alibaba Group), Xiaolong Bai(Alibaba Group), Luyi Xing(Indiana University Bloomington), Halle Winkler, Politepix theoffcuts.org, Dolf Hoegaerts, Michiel Devliegere, Andrew James Gonzalez, Junsung <3(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), Richard Hyunho Im with routezero.security@@richeeta, Joseph Ravichandran@@0xjprx(MIT CSAIL), zbleet(QI), Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(OffSec), 风沐云烟 (binary_fmyy)(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Minghao Lin@@Y1nKoc(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Zhongquan Li@@Guluisacat, Zhongcheng Li(IES Red Team of ByteDance), Ron Masas(BREAKPOINT), Jeffrey Hofmann, Dominik Rath, Martin Kreichgauer(Google Chrome), Ian Mckay@@iann0036, Google Threat Analysis Group, wac(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), Nolan Astrein(Kandji), pattern-f@@pattern_F_, luckyu@@uuulucky, Rodolphe BRUNETTI@@eisw0lf, Andr.Ess, Murray Mike, mzzzz__, Dayton Pidhirney(Atredis Partners), Lyutoon, YenKoc, Ye Zhang@@VAR10CK(Baidu Security), Koh M. Nakagawa@@tsunek0h(FFRI Security Inc), CVE-2024-48958, 风沐云烟@@binary_fmyy, Alexia Wilson(Microsoft), Christine Fossaceca(Microsoft), Alhour@@NSAntoine, Jimmy, CVE-2023-27043, Jaydev Ahire, @@RenwaX23, Syarif Muhammad Sajjad, Yiğit Can YILMAZ@@yilmazcanyigit, Rodolphe Brunetti@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), K宝@@Pwnrin, Tong Liu@@Lyutoon_, 风(binary_fmyy), F00L, Dave G., Cristian Dinca(Computer Science), Romania, 风沐云烟 (binary_fmyy), Kirin, FlowerCode, Pedro José Pereira Vieito / pvieito.com)@@pvieito, Alexander Heinrich@@Sn0wfreeze, SEEMOO, TU Darmstadt & Mathy Vanhoef@@vanhoefm, Jeroen Robben@@RobbenJeroen, DistriNet, KU Leuven, Vsevolod Kokorin (Slonser)(Solidlab), Gary Kwong, Paul Bakker(ParagonERP)
Affected Software
6 affected componentsFixes available
apple macOS Sequoia<15.4
15.4
Apple macOS>=13.0<13.7.5
Apple macOS>=14.0<14.7.5
Apple macOS>=15.0<15.4
apple macOS Ventura<13.7.5
13.7.5
apple macOS Sonoma<14.7.5
14.7.5
Event History
Mar 31, 2025
Data Sourced
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Description
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionAffected Software
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:23 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:23 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·11:15 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Parent advisories
This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.
Peer vulnerabilities
Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.
- CVE-2025-24202
- CVE-2025-24234
- CVE-2025-24097
- CVE-2025-31202
- CVE-2025-30445
- CVE-2025-24270
- CVE-2025-24206
- CVE-2025-24252
- CVE-2025-24271
- CVE-2025-24251
- CVE-2025-31197
- CVE-2025-24276
- CVE-2025-24272
- CVE-2025-24239
- CVE-2025-24233
- CVE-2025-30443
- CVE-2025-24244
- CVE-2025-24243
- CVE-2025-30430
- CVE-2025-24180
- CVE-2025-24245
- CVE-2025-30460
- CVE-2025-24237
- CVE-2025-30429
- CVE-2025-24212
- CVE-2025-24215
- CVE-2025-24163
- CVE-2025-24230
- CVE-2025-24211
- CVE-2025-24236
- CVE-2025-24190
- CVE-2025-30454
- CVE-2025-31191
- CVE-2025-24182
- CVE-2025-31203
- CVE-2025-24277
- CVE-2024-9681
- CVE-2025-24255
- CVE-2025-30456
- CVE-2025-24267
- CVE-2025-30455
- CVE-2025-31187
- CVE-2025-30462
- CVE-2025-30451
- CVE-2025-24281
- CVE-2025-30439
- CVE-2025-24283
- CVE-2025-30461
- CVE-2025-30447
- CVE-2025-24199
- CVE-2025-30464
- CVE-2025-24273
- CVE-2025-24256
- CVE-2025-30463
- CVE-2025-24210
- CVE-2025-24249
- CVE-2025-24229
- CVE-2025-24257
- CVE-2025-30437
- CVE-2025-24235
- CVE-2025-24204
- CVE-2025-24203
- CVE-2025-24196
- CVE-2025-24148
- CVE-2024-48958
- CVE-2025-24195
- CVE-2025-24194
- CVE-2025-27113
- CVE-2024-56171
- CVE-2025-24178
- CVE-2025-31182
- CVE-2025-24238
- CVE-2025-24172
- CVE-2025-30450
- CVE-2025-30470
- CVE-2025-30426
- CVE-2025-24262
- CVE-2025-24232
- CVE-2025-24246
- CVE-2025-24261
- CVE-2025-24164
- CVE-2025-30446
- CVE-2025-24259
- CVE-2025-30424
- CVE-2025-24173
- CVE-2023-27043
- CVE-2025-24191
- CVE-2025-24113
- CVE-2025-30467
- CVE-2025-31192
- CVE-2025-24167
- CVE-2025-24093
- CVE-2025-30452
- CVE-2025-24181
- CVE-2025-30458
- CVE-2025-30471
- CVE-2025-24250
- CVE-2025-30438
- CVE-2025-30465
- CVE-2025-24280
- CVE-2025-31194
- CVE-2025-30433
- CVE-2025-31183
- CVE-2025-30435
- CVE-2025-24217
- CVE-2025-24214
- CVE-2025-24248
- CVE-2025-24205
- CVE-2025-24198
- CVE-2025-24269
- CVE-2025-30444
- CVE-2025-24228
- CVE-2025-24260
- CVE-2025-24282
- CVE-2025-24254
- CVE-2025-24231
- CVE-2025-24263
- CVE-2025-24207
- CVE-2025-30449
- CVE-2025-24253
- CVE-2025-24240
- CVE-2025-31188
- CVE-2025-24218
- CVE-2025-24278
- CVE-2025-24242
- CVE-2025-30457
- CVE-2025-24279
- CVE-2025-31184
- CVE-2025-24192
- CVE-2025-24264
- CVE-2025-24216
- CVE-2025-24213
- CVE-2025-24209
- CVE-2025-30427
- CVE-2025-30425
- CVE-2025-24247
- CVE-2025-24241
- CVE-2025-24266
- CVE-2025-24265
- CVE-2025-24157
- CVE-2025-24131
- CVE-2025-24177
- CVE-2025-24179
- CVE-2025-24129
- CVE-2025-24126
- CVE-2024-40864
- CVE-2025-43205
- CVE-2025-24085
- CVE-2025-24170
- CVE-2025-31189
- CVE-2025-24111
- CVE-2025-30432
- CVE-2025-31264
- CVE-2025-24139
- CVE-2024-54533
- CVE-2025-31261
- CVE-2025-31198
- CVE-2025-31272
- CVE-2025-31196
- CVE-2025-30453
- CVE-2025-24258
- CVE-2025-30431
- CVE-2025-30448
- CVE-2025-31263
- CVE-2025-31231
- CVE-2025-31199
- CVE-2025-46308
- CVE-2025-24284
- CVE-2025-30459
- CVE-2025-30466
- CVE-2025-24268
- CVE-2025-43184
- CVE-2025-24165
- CVE-2025-30442
- CVE-2025-46293
- CVE-2025-43278
- CVE-2025-31195
- CVE-2025-43465
- CVE-2025-24107
Frequently Asked Questions
1
What is the severity of CVE-2025-24266?
The severity of CVE-2025-24266 is considered critical due to the potential for buffer overflow leading to unexpected system termination.
2
How do I fix CVE-2025-24266?
To fix CVE-2025-24266, update to macOS Ventura 13.7.5, macOS Sequoia 15.4, or macOS Sonoma 14.7.5.
3
What systems are affected by CVE-2025-24266?
CVE-2025-24266 affects macOS Ventura versions up to 13.7.5, macOS Sequoia 15.4, and macOS Sonoma versions up to 14.7.5.
4
What type of vulnerability is CVE-2025-24266?
CVE-2025-24266 is a buffer overflow vulnerability that can lead to unexpected application behavior and system termination.
5
Is user action required for CVE-2025-24266?
Yes, user action is required to apply the necessary updates and mitigate the effects of CVE-2025-24266.