Denial of service via WebKit memory mishandling
Published Jan 27, 2025 · Updated May 21, 2026
Denial of service in WebKit in affected Apple operating systems and Safari allows remote attackers to interrupt web content processing. The public WebKit record identifies improved memory handling as the fix but does not disclose the faulty allocation, lifetime, or bounds operation. A target must process attacker-controlled web content; successful exploitation interrupts the WebKit process, with no reported confidentiality or integrity impact.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in WebKit in affected Apple operating systems and Safari allows remote attackers to interrupt web content processing. The public WebKit record identifies improved memory handling as the fix but does not disclose the faulty allocation, lifetime, or bounds operation. A target must process attacker-controlled web content; successful exploitation interrupts the WebKit process, with no reported confidentiality or integrity impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-24158
- Published
- Jan 27, 2025
- Updated
- May 21, 2026
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- iOS and iPadOS
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 27, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 21, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <18.3
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