Apple Safari 26.1 Buffer Overflow Crash via Malicious Web Content
CVE-2025-43429 Published on November 4, 2025
A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in tvOS 26.1, watchOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1, Safari 26.1, iOS 18.7.2 and iPadOS 18.7.2, visionOS 26.1. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-43429 can be exploited 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 have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
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-2025-43429 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
Apple Safari:- Version unspecified and below 26.1 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 26.1 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 26.1 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 26.1 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 26.1 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 26.1 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 18.7 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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