Safari 26.1 Crash via Malicious Web Content (State Mgmt)
CVE-2025-43458 Published on November 4, 2025
This issue was addressed through improved state management. 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-2025-43458 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 have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Weakness Types
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
The software does not properly anticipate or handle exceptional conditions that rarely occur during normal operation of the software.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-43458
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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
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.