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CISA KEV · ACTIVELY EXPLOITED
MEDIUM severity

CVE-2025-24200 — IPADOS

MEDIUM

CVE-2025-24200 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.1) CWE-863 vulnerability in apple ipados. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-02-12) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.

An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.8.4 and iPadOS 15.8.4, iOS 16.7.11 and iPadOS 16.7.11, iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1,…

Published
Updated
Affected
2 products
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 23, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

  • Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-02-12. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-03-05.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-24200.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
4.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk-0.04%
Lower risk than most CVEs91th percentile — riskier than 91% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%20.5%41.1%61.6%44.2%4.4%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2025-24200 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.8.4 and iPadOS 15.8.4, iOS 16.7.11 and iPadOS 16.7.11, iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 17.7.5. A physical attack may disable USB Restricted Mode on a locked device. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.

Affected Products

2 products · 7 configurations
OS
ipadosapple
≥ 18.0 && ≤ 17.7.5
range
OS
iphone osapple
≥ 17.0 && < 18.3.1
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

  1. Detect

    Inventory every apple ipados deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

  2. Fix

    Apply the apple ipados security patch or hotfix for CVE-2025-24200 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.

  3. Workarounds

    Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.8.4 and iPadOS 15.8.4, iOS 16.7.11 and iPadOS 16.7.11, iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 17.7.5. A physical attack may disable USB Restricted Mode on a locked device. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.
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Actively Exploited: CVE-2025-24200: IPADOS (Medium 6.1)