Apple Safari Memory Corruption (before 18.6)
CVE-2025-31278 Published on July 30, 2025
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6, iPadOS 17.7.9, watchOS 11.6, visionOS 2.6, iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, tvOS 18.6. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-31278 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?
The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.
CVE-2025-31278 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-31278
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Affected Versions
Apple Safari:- Version unspecified and below 18.6 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 17.7 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 15.6 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 18.6 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 2.6 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 11.6 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 18.6 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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