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CVE-2025-43520 Apple CVE debrief
CVE-2025-43520 is a CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) entry for Apple Multiple Products. The supplied corpus describes the issue as a classic buffer overflow and places it in CISA's catalog of vulnerabilities requiring urgent remediation. Because the source set here does not include the Apple advisory text, affected versions and deeper technical impact are not stated in this debrief. Treat the issue as high priority and follow Apple guidance referenced by CISA.
- Vendor
- Apple
- Product
- Multiple Products
- CVSS
- Unknown
- CISA KEV
- Listed
- Original CVE published
- 2026-03-20
- Original CVE updated
- 2026-03-20
- Advisory published
- 2026-03-20
- Advisory updated
- 2026-03-20
Who should care
Apple platform owners, endpoint and mobility teams, enterprise security operations, vulnerability management, and anyone responsible for keeping supported Apple products patched.
Technical summary
The public corpus identifies the issue only as a classic buffer overflow affecting Apple Multiple Products. CISA's KEV inclusion indicates the vulnerability is considered known exploited and should be remediated quickly. The supplied materials do not include the exact affected product/version list, exploit path, or impact details, so remediation should be driven by Apple vendor guidance and inventory validation.
Defensive priority
High
Recommended defensive actions
- Review the Apple support advisories referenced in the CISA KEV notes and apply the vendor's mitigations or updates as soon as possible.
- Identify Apple products in your inventory and confirm whether they fall within the affected scope once Apple's advisory details are consulted.
- Use the KEV due date as an urgency target and track remediation to completion.
- If mitigation is not available for a system you must keep online, follow vendor guidance and consider discontinuing use of the product where appropriate.
- Validate patch status after remediation and monitor for any updated vendor guidance or follow-on advisories.
Evidence notes
Evidence is limited to the supplied CISA KEV metadata and the official CVE.org, NVD, and CISA links. The KEV record lists Apple support advisories 125632 through 125639 in its notes, but those advisory contents are not included in the corpus provided here. No CVSS score or affected-version details were supplied.
Sources and references
Verified primary and authoritative sources
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CVE-2025-43520 CVE Program record
Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified
URL: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-43520
CVE Program - Official CVE Program record with source-provided CVE metadata.
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CVE-2025-43520 NVD vulnerability detail
Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified
URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43520
NIST National Vulnerability Database - Official NIST NVD detail page and source-specific vulnerability assessment.
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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified
URL: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency - Official CISA catalog of vulnerabilities known to be exploited in the wild.
Supplemental references
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Source item URL
Unverified legacy reference
URL: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json
cisa_kev
Methodology and review provenance
AI-assisted synthesis based on stored public vulnerability evidence. System validation, approval state, and publication status do not by themselves establish human review of this revision. PatchSiren helps prioritize defensive review and does not prove exposure or remediation on any system.