CVE-2025-52573

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-52573
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-52573.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-52573
Aliases
Published
2025-06-26T14:15:30Z
Modified
2025-07-01T23:22:58.762793Z
Summary
[none]
Details

iOS Simulator MCP Server (ios-simulator-mcp) is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with iOS simulators. Versions prior to 1.3.3 are written in a way that is vulnerable to command injection vulnerability attacks as part of some of its MCP Server tool definition and implementation. The MCP Server exposes the tool ui_tap which relies on Node.js child process API exec which is an unsafe and vulnerable API if concatenated with untrusted user input. LLM exposed user input for duration, udid, and x and y args can be replaced with shell meta-characters like ; or && or others to change the behavior from running the expected command idb to another command. When LLMs are tricked through prompt injection (and other techniques and attack vectors) to call the tool with input that uses special shell characters such as ; rm -rf /tmp;# and other payload variations, the full command-line text will be interepted by the shell and result in other commands except of ps executing on the host running the MCP Server. Version 1.3.3 contains a patch for the issue.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.0.0
v1.1.0
v1.2.0
v1.3.0
v1.3.1
v1.3.2