About the security content of visionOS 2.3

This document describes the security content of visionOS 2.3.

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visionOS 2.3

Released January 27, 2025

AirPlay

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An attacker on the local network may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt process memory

Description: An input validation issue was addressed.

CVE-2025-24126: Uri Katz (Oligo Security)

AirPlay

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: A remote attacker may cause an unexpected app termination

Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2025-24129: Uri Katz (Oligo Security)

AirPlay

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial-of-service

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2025-24131: Uri Katz (Oligo Security)

AirPlay

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: A remote attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2025-24137: Uri Katz (Oligo Security)

ARKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Parsing a file may lead to an unexpected app termination

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2025-24127: Minghao Lin (@Y1nKoc), babywu, and Xingwei Lin of Zhejiang University

CoreAudio

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Parsing a file may lead to an unexpected app termination

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2025-24160: Google Threat Analysis Group

CVE-2025-24161: Google Threat Analysis Group

CVE-2025-24163: Google Threat Analysis Group

CoreMedia

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Parsing a file may lead to an unexpected app termination

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2025-24123: Desmond working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

CVE-2025-24124: Pwn2car & Rotiple (HyeongSeok Jang) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

CoreMedia

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 17.2.

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2025-24085

ImageIO

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing an image may lead to a denial-of-service

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2025-24086: DongJun Kim (@smlijun) and JongSeong Kim (@nevul37) in Enki WhiteHat, D4m0n

Kernel

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved logic.

CVE-2025-24159: pattern-f (@pattern_F_)

LaunchServices

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An app may be able to fingerprint the user

Description: This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information.

CVE-2025-24117: Michael (Biscuit) Thomas (@biscuit@social.lol)

Safari

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to user interface spoofing

Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI.

CVE-2025-24113: @RenwaX23

SceneKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Parsing a file may lead to disclosure of user information

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2025-24149: Michael DePlante (@izobashi) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

WebContentFilter

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: An attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2025-24154: an anonymous researcher

WebKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user

Description: The issue was addressed with improved access restrictions to the file system.

WebKit Bugzilla: 283117

CVE-2025-24143: an anonymous researcher

WebKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

WebKit Bugzilla: 283889

CVE-2025-24158: Q1IQ (@q1iqF) of NUS CuriOSity and P1umer (@p1umer) of Imperial Global Singapore

WebKit

Available for: Apple Vision Pro

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash

Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 284159

CVE-2025-24162: linjy of HKUS3Lab and chluo of WHUSecLab

Additional recognition

Audio

We would like to acknowledge Google Threat Analysis Group for their assistance.

CoreAudio

We would like to acknowledge Google Threat Analysis Group for their assistance.

CoreMedia Playback

We would like to acknowledge Song Hyun Bae (@bshyuunn) and Lee Dong Ha (Who4mI) for their assistance.

Files

We would like to acknowledge Chi Yuan Chang of ZUSO ART and taikosoup for their assistance.

Guest User

We would like to acknowledge Jake Derouin for their assistance.

Passwords

We would like to acknowledge Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk of Mysk Inc. @mysk_co for their assistance.

Static Linker

We would like to acknowledge Holger Fuhrmannek for their assistance.

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