High

Privacy Preferences Bypass in Apple RepairKit

IdentifiersCVE-2025-24095CWE-863

CVE-2025-24095 is a vulnerability in Apple RepairKit affecting visionOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Apple states that an app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences. The issue was addressed by adding additional entitlement checks, indicating the flaw involved insufficient enforcement of entitlement-based authorization around access to privacy-controlled functionality or data. Apple reports the issue is fixed in visionOS 2.4, iOS 18.4, and iPadOS 18.4.

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ANALYST BRIEF

Impact, mitigation & remediation

What it means. What to do now. Patch path, mitigations, and the assume-compromise checklist.

Impact

What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.

Successful exploitation could allow a malicious app to circumvent user-configured Privacy preferences and gain access to protected capabilities or data that should have been restricted by the operating system's privacy controls. This undermines the platform privacy model and could result in unauthorized access to sensitive user information or protected device resources, subject to the specific RepairKit code path involved.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

Until patches are applied, reduce exposure by limiting installation of untrusted or unnecessary apps, enforcing application allowlisting where possible, and restricting app deployment to trusted sources. Because exploitation requires a malicious app, standard mobile hardening measures such as MDM-based app control and least-privilege app deployment may reduce risk. No vendor-specific workaround beyond updating is provided in the supplied content.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Update affected devices to visionOS 2.4, iOS 18.4, or iPadOS 18.4 or later. Apple indicates the vulnerability was fixed through additional entitlement checks in RepairKit, so deploying the vendor-provided update is the primary remediation.

PUBLIC EXPLOITS

Exploits

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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.

EXPOSURE SURFACE

Affected products & vendors

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VendorProductType

AppleIpadosoperating_system

AppleIphone Osoperating_system

AppleVisionosoperating_system

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ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

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apple supportNews

Jan 25, 2026

About the security content of visionOS 2.4 - Apple Support

An entitlement-check issue that may allow an app to bypass Privacy preferences on Apple Vision Pro.

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Exposure mapping

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Threat actor evidence

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Associated malware

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Detection signatures

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Vendor-by-vendor mapping

Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.

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