Apple has fixed a privilege escalation flaw in its Core Media framework that was used by hackers to attack iPhones running older versions of iOS.

Among the numerous security updates, the iOS/iPadOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3, and visionOS 2.3 updates patch a CoreMedia zero-day flaw. Exploitation of CVE-2025-24085 could allow a malicious application to access privileged parts of the system and was fixed with improved memory management.