⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2025-04-17. Federal agencies required to patch by 2025-05-08. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable..

CVE-2025-31201Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in Apple IOS AND Ipados

Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.3%
top 15.21%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2025-04-17
Due 2025-05-08
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedApr 16
KEV addedApr 17
KEV dueMay 8
CISA Required Action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4.1 and iPadOS 18.4.1, macOS Sequoia 15.4.1, tvOS 18.4.1, visionOS 2.4.1. An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages9 packages

CVEListV5apple/tvos< 18.4.1
NVDapple/tvos< 18.4.1
CVEListV5apple/macos< 15.4.1
NVDapple/macos15.015.4.1
NVDapple/ipados< 18.4.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
CVEList
CVE-2025-31201: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code2025-04-16
GHSA
GHSA-q4hh-vrvh-r4h7: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code2025-04-16
VulnCheck
Apple Multiple Products Arbitrary Read and Write Vulnerability2025

📋Vendor Advisories

5
CISA
Apple Multiple Products Arbitrary Read and Write Vulnerability2025-04-17
Apple
CVE-2025-31201: iOS 18.4.1 and iPadOS 18.4.12025-04-16
Apple
CVE-2025-31201: tvOS 18.4.12025-04-16
Apple
CVE-2025-31201: macOS Sequoia 15.4.12025-04-16
Apple
CVE-2025-31201: visionOS 2.4.12025-04-16

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Bleepingcomputer
Apple fixes two zero-days exploited in targeted iPhone attacks2025-04-16
CVE-2025-31201 — Apple IOS AND Ipados vulnerability | cvebase