CVE-2025-43228

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Published: 2025-07-30 Last update: 2026-04-02 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-43228 is rated Low Risk (34.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.26%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-43228

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-25 0.06% 0.26% +0.20%
2 2026-04-14 0.03% 0.06% +0.03%
3 2025-12-25 — 0.03% —

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-43228

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-43228

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-43228

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2025-43228 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (webkit2gtk, wpewebkit), 10 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 7, open 3. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-43228
gentoo high CVE-2025-43228: 1 GLSA(s) (202511-02), 1 atom(s) (net-libs/webkit-gtk); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2025-43228
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-43228
suse medium CVE-2025-43228 severity moderate: SUSE including 99 source package names (WebKitGTK-4.0-lang-2.48.5-150400.4.122.1, WebKitGTK-4.0-lang-2.48.5-150600.12.43.1, …), 394 product×package rows across 32 product lines (SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, … (32 product lines)): Fixed 367, Known Not Affected 27. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-43228/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-43228 medium priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (qtwebkit-opensource-src, qtwebkit-source, webkit2gtk, webkitgtk, wpewebkit), 31 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, upstream, xenial): ignored 14, DNE 9, needs-triage 4, released 4. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-43228

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-43228

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apple safari < 18.6 cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple ipados < 18.6 cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple iphone_os < 18.6 cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2025-43228

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