What is CVE-2025-14765?

CVE-2025-14765 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple macOS, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2025-12-16.

How severe is CVE-2025-14765?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-14765 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Use After Free in Apple macOS

CVE-2025-14765

Use after free in WebGPU in Google Chrome prior to 143.0.7499.147 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

Published 2025-12-16 · last modified 2026-09-30.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.030 (86.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 86.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.030 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-416 — Use After Free

Public proof-of-concept exploits

InfoSecAntara/CVE-2025-14765-and-CVE-2025-14766

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html (Release Notes)
issues.chromium.org/issues/448294721 (Permissions Required, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-14765?: CVE-2025-14765 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple macOS, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2025-12-16.
How severe is CVE-2025-14765?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-14765 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.