Vulnerability report

Exploited in the wild Confirmed confidence In CISA KEV

CVE-2025-31277

Safari

Apple / Safari · affected before *

Severity
CVSS 8.8 · High
Confidence
Confirmed
Exploit status
Exploited in the wild
EPSS
1.5%
First observed
Last observed

Decision summary

What security teams need to know first

Direct answers before the deeper technical record.

What it is

CVE-2025-31277 is an unauthenticated vulnerability affecting Apple Safari and 5 other products. The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6, iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6,...

Is it exploited?

Yes. KEV Intelligence tracks this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability. Confidence is confirmed.

Who is affected?

Apple / Safari affected before *.

What should we do?

Prioritize remediation. Validate affected assets and apply vendor fixes on an accelerated timeline.

Overview

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 18.6, iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, tvOS 18.6, visionOS 2.6, watchOS 11.6.

Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption.

Vendor Product Affected Status
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support webkitgtk4 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support webkit2gtk3 Before * Unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 webkitgtk3 All versions (default: unaffected) Unaffected
Apple Safari Before 18.6 Affected
Apple iOS and iPadOS Before 18.6 Affected
Apple macOS Before 15.6 Affected
Apple tvOS Before 18.6 Affected
Apple visionOS Before 2.6 Affected
Apple watchOS Before 11.6 Affected
Published
29 Jul 2025
Exploitation Reported
01 Jun 2026
Attack vector
Remote
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required

Tags

cisa

CVE References

Exploitation evidence

Why KEV Intelligence marks this CVE as exploited

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Exploited in the wild

CISA

Recorded 01 Jun 2026

Independent exploitation attestation added to the KEV Intelligence record.

Known exploited vulnerability sources

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Source Added
CISA First 2026-06-01 13:30 UTC

Detection

Operational artifacts and observed signals

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Observed signals

Request targets
0
User-Agents
0

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Scanner coverage

No scanner integrations recorded yet.

Virtual patch status

No KEV Intelligence virtual patch is currently available. Future rules ship for ModSecurity, Cloudflare, and AWS WAF.

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No detection artifacts or sensor request patterns are available for this CVE yet.

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Risk and context

Severity, weaknesses, and research context

Timeline

From disclosure to observed exploitation

  1. Added to CISA KEV

    Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

  2. CVE published

    Vulnerability disclosed publicly

  3. CVE ID reserved

    Identifier reserved by the CNA

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{
  "cve_id": "CVE-2025-31277",
  "confidence": "Confirmed",
  "cvss_score": 8.8,
  "cvss_estimated": false,
  "epss_score": 0.01481,
  "exploit_status": {
    "exploited_in_the_wild": true,
    "active_exploitation_observed": false
  },
  "sensor_telemetry": { "attempts": 0, "sensors": 0 }
}

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