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CVE-2025-43538: macos before 14.8.3 (exclusive); +4 more affected products
CVE-2025-43538. CVSS 3.1 base score 5.5 (MEDIUM, NVD). EPSS 0.03014 (percentile 0.86976), scored 2026-10-05.
Affected technology
macos · before 14.8.3 (exclusive)
apple
iOS and iPadOS · 0 to before 18.7.3, 0 to before 26.2
Apple
macOS · 0 to before 14.8.3, 0 to before 26.2
Apple
visionOS · 0 to before 26.2
Apple
watchOS · 0 to before 26.2
Apple
Component: Not specified by the source
Attack conditions (NVD, CVSS 3.1): Local · Low privileges required · No user interaction required
Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 3.1): Local · Low privileges required · No user interaction required
What an attacker can do
NVD’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 5.5/10) rates confidentiality impact as high; integrity and availability impact as none. Source advisory’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 3.3/10) rates confidentiality impact as low; integrity and availability impact as none. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.
- CWE
- CWE-200
- CCR priority
- 22.8 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N · NVD
- EPSS
- 0.03014 · percentile 0.86998 · 2026-10-06
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 11:53:15.413517+00:00 UTC
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 11:49:32.540646+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-43538.html