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macOS 14.x < 14.7.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (122374)

high Nessus Plugin ID 233570

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Synopsis

The remote host is missing a macOS update that fixes multiple vulnerabilities

Description

The remote host is running a version of macOS / Mac OS X that is 14.x prior to 14.7.5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

 - A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in visionOS 2.3, iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3. 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. (CVE-2025-24085)

 - libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a use-after-free in xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables and xmlSchemaBubbleIDCNodeTables in xmlschemas.c. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.
 (CVE-2024-56171)

 - When curl is asked to use HSTS, the expiry time for a subdomain might overwrite a parent domain's cache entry, making it end sooner or later than otherwise intended. This affects curl using applications that enable HSTS and use URLs with the insecure `HTTP://` scheme and perform transfers with hosts like `x.example.com` as well as `example.com` where the first host is a subdomain of the second host. (The HSTS cache either needs to have been populated manually or there needs to have been previous HTTPS accesses done as the cache needs to have entries for the domains involved to trigger this problem.) When `x.example.com` responds with `Strict-Transport-Security:` headers, this bug can make the subdomain's expiry timeout *bleed over* and get set for the parent domain `example.com` in curl's HSTS cache. The result of a triggered bug is that HTTP accesses to `example.com` get converted to HTTPS for a different period of time than what was asked for by the origin server. If `example.com` for example stops supporting HTTPS at its expiry time, curl might then fail to access `http://example.com` until the (wrongly set) timeout expires. This bug can also expire the parent's entry *earlier*, thus making curl inadvertently switch back to insecure HTTP earlier than otherwise intended. (CVE-2024-9681)

 - libxml2 before 2.12.10 and 2.13.x before 2.13.6 has a NULL pointer dereference in xmlPatMatch in pattern.c. (CVE-2025-27113)

 - This issue was addressed through improved state management. (CVE-2025-24097, CVE-2025-24173, CVE-2025-24178, CVE-2025-24198, CVE-2025-24212, CVE-2025-24238, CVE-2025-24244, CVE-2025-30433, CVE-2025-30438, CVE-2025-30454, CVE-2025-30456, CVE-2025-30470, CVE-2025-31182, CVE-2025-31183, CVE-2025-31191)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the operating system's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to macOS 14.7.5 or later.

See Also

https://support.apple.com/en-us/122374

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 233570

File Name: macos_122374.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 3/31/2025

Updated: 3/31/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24085

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:apple:macos:14.0, cpe:/o:apple:mac_os_x:14.0

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 2/19/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-40864, CVE-2024-54533, CVE-2024-56171, CVE-2024-9681, CVE-2025-24085, CVE-2025-24097, CVE-2025-24148, CVE-2025-24157, CVE-2025-24164, CVE-2025-24170, CVE-2025-24172, CVE-2025-24173, CVE-2025-24178, CVE-2025-24181, CVE-2025-24190, CVE-2025-24195, CVE-2025-24196, CVE-2025-24198, CVE-2025-24199, CVE-2025-24203, CVE-2025-24205, CVE-2025-24207, CVE-2025-24210, CVE-2025-24211, CVE-2025-24212, CVE-2025-24215, CVE-2025-24228, CVE-2025-24229, CVE-2025-24230, CVE-2025-24231, CVE-2025-24232, CVE-2025-24233, CVE-2025-24234, CVE-2025-24235, CVE-2025-24236, CVE-2025-24237, CVE-2025-24238, CVE-2025-24240, CVE-2025-24241, CVE-2025-24243, CVE-2025-24244, CVE-2025-24246, CVE-2025-24247, CVE-2025-24249, CVE-2025-24250, CVE-2025-24253, CVE-2025-24254, CVE-2025-24255, CVE-2025-24256, CVE-2025-24259, CVE-2025-24260, CVE-2025-24261, CVE-2025-24265, CVE-2025-24266, CVE-2025-24267, CVE-2025-24272, CVE-2025-24273, CVE-2025-24276, CVE-2025-24277, CVE-2025-24278, CVE-2025-24279, CVE-2025-24280, CVE-2025-27113, CVE-2025-30424, CVE-2025-30429, CVE-2025-30432, CVE-2025-30433, CVE-2025-30438, CVE-2025-30443, CVE-2025-30444, CVE-2025-30446, CVE-2025-30447, CVE-2025-30449, CVE-2025-30450, CVE-2025-30452, CVE-2025-30454, CVE-2025-30455, CVE-2025-30456, CVE-2025-30457, CVE-2025-30460, CVE-2025-30462, CVE-2025-30464, CVE-2025-30465, CVE-2025-30470, CVE-2025-30471, CVE-2025-31182, CVE-2025-31183, CVE-2025-31187, CVE-2025-31188, CVE-2025-31191, CVE-2025-31194

APPLE-SA: 122374