Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a collection of now-patched security vulnerabilities in Apple’s AirPlay protocol that, if efficiently exploited, may allow an attacker to take over vulnerable gadgets supporting the proprietary wi-fi know-how.
The shortcomings have been collectively codenamed AirBorne by Israeli cybersecurity firm Oligo.
“These vulnerabilities will be chained by attackers to doubtlessly take management of gadgets that assist AirPlay – together with each Apple gadgets and third-party gadgets that leverage the AirPlay SDK,” security researchers Uri Katz, Avi Lumelsky, and Gal Elbaz mentioned.
A few of the vulnerabilities, like CVE-2025-24252 and CVE-2025-24132, will be strung collectively to trend a wormable zero-click RCE exploit, enabling dangerous actors to deploy malware that propagates to gadgets on any native community the contaminated gadget connects to.
This might then pave the way in which for classy assaults that may result in the deployment of backdoors and ransomware, posing a severe security danger.
The vulnerabilities, in a nutshell, may allow zero- or one-click distant code execution (RCE), entry management record (ACL) and consumer interplay bypass, native arbitrary file learn, data disclosure, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) assaults, and denial-of-service (DoS).
This contains chaining CVE-2025-24252 and CVE-2025-24206 to realize a zero-click RCE on macOS gadgets which are linked to the identical community as an attacker. Nonetheless, for this exploit to succeed, the AirPlay receiver must be on and set to the “Anybody on the identical community” or “Everybody” configuration.
In a hypothetical assault state of affairs, a sufferer’s gadget may get compromised when linked to a public Wi-Fi community. Ought to the gadget be linked later to an enterprise community, it may present an attacker with a technique to breach different gadgets which are linked to the identical community.
A few of the different notable flaws are listed beneath –
- CVE-2025-24271 – An ACL vulnerability that may allow an attacker on the identical community as a signed-in Mac to ship AirPlay instructions to it with out pairing
- CVE-2025-24137 – A vulnerability that would trigger arbitrary code execution or an software to terminate
- CVE-2025-24132 – A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that would lead to a zero-click RCE on audio system and receivers that leverage the AirPlay SDK
- CVE-2025-24206 – An authentication vulnerability that would enable an attacker on the native community to bypass authentication coverage
- CVE-2025-24270 – A vulnerability that would enable an attacker on the native community to leak delicate consumer data
- CVE-2025-24251 – A vulnerability that would enable an attacker on the native community to trigger an sudden app termination
- CVE-2025-31197 – A vulnerability that would enable an attacker on the native community to trigger an sudden app termination
- CVE-2025-30445 – A sort confusion vulnerability that would may enable an attacker on the native community to trigger an sudden app termination
- CVE-2025-31203 – An integer overflow vulnerability that would enable an attacker on the native community to trigger a DoS situation
Following accountable disclosure, the recognized vulnerabilities have been patched within the beneath variations –
- iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4
- iPadOS 17.7.6
- macOS Sequoia 15.4
- macOS Sonoma 14.7.5
- macOS Ventura 13.7.5
- tvOS 18.4, and
- visionOS 2.4
A few of the weaknesses (CVE-2025-24132 and CVE-2025-30422) have additionally been patched in AirPlay audio SDK 2.7.1, AirPlay video SDK 3.6.0.126, and CarPlay Communication Plug-in R18.1.
“For organizations, it’s crucial that any company Apple gadgets and different machines that assist AirPlay are up to date instantly to the newest software program variations,” Oligo mentioned.
“Safety leaders additionally want to offer clear communication to their workers that each one of their private gadgets that assist AirPlay have to even be up to date instantly.”
