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Anthony Spadafora

Apple just patched its first zero-day flaw of the year — update your iPhone and Mac right now

IPhone 16 Pro shown held in hand.

If you’ve been holding off on updating your iPhone, Mac and other Apple devices, you should do so right now as the company has released new security updates to patch its first zero-day vulnerability of the year.

As reported by BleepingComputer, this new zero-day (traced as CVE-2025-24085) is a privilege escalation flaw in Apple’s Core Media framework. In a support document, the company explains that “a malicious application may be able to elevate privileges” by exploiting this now patched vulnerability.

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