CVE-2025-24203 Path traversal in iOS and iPadOS

What is CVE-2025-24203?

CVE-2025-24203 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Apple Ipad Os, published on 31 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, iPadOS 17.7.6, macOS Sequoia 15.4, macOS Sonoma 14.7.5, macOS Ventura 13.7.5, tvOS 18.4, visionOS 2.4, watchOS 11.4. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24203?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Ipad Os, Apple Macos.

How do I fix CVE-2025-24203?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24203 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2025-24203 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24203 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 3 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Ipad Os

• CVE-2021-1794 Memory corruption in iOS and iPadOS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-1795 Memory corruption in iOS and iPadOS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-1796 Memory corruption in iOS and iPadOS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-1818 Memory corruption in iOS and iPadOS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-23255 Auth bypass in iOS and iPadOS Critical 9.1

All Apple Ipad Os vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-378r-2hmj-3r7x.