CVE-2025-43294 Information disclosure in iOS and iPadOS

What is CVE-2025-43294?

CVE-2025-43294 is a low-severity vulnerability in Apple Macos, published on 15 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue existed in the handling of environment variables. This issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26.1, watchOS 26.1. An app may be able to access sensitive user data.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-43294?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Macos.

How do I fix CVE-2025-43294?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-43294 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-43294 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-43294 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Macos

• CVE-2026-65400 Apple macOS Improper Authentication Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-44146 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-44148 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-38586 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-40455 Security feature bypass in macOS Critical 10.0

All Apple Macos vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g79w-6xp3-x2mw.