About the security content of macOS Golden Gate 27.2
This document describes the security content of macOS Golden Gate 27.2.
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macOS Golden Gate 27.2
Released October 26, 2026
Accelerate Framework
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-86971: an anonymous researcher
Accounts
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.
CVE-2026-113898: Bhaswanth Chigurupati
Accounts
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.
CVE-2026-112446: LiangWei, Sindre Sorhus
AirPort
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112551: Nguyen Duc Anh of Noventiq, Sindre Sorhus
APFS
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted disk image may cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-84496: Maher Azzouzi, 준우 이, Jonathan Bar Or (@yo_yo_yo_jbo), Bhuwan Bhetwal, Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), Jakob Pammer, Aswin Kumar Gokula Kannan, Thanatos Tian (HKPolyU) & wgg with Diffract, Marco Schmitt, Kwak kiyong (@Pwnkai23) , Song nuri, Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon), an anonymous researcher
APFS
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112536: Ruslan Dautov, Kwak Kiyong (@Pwnkai23), Song Nuri, Thanatos Tian (HKPolyU) & wgg with Diffract, Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), Thomas Guillem
APFS
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112525: We Muftihaturrahmah, Aswin Kumar Gokula Kannan, Ruslan Dautov, Peter Malone
App Store
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to bypass network restrictions
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112467: Sindre Sorhus
App Store
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to break out of the WebContent sandbox
Description: This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112690: Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos
Apple Neural Engine
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112696: Jaeyeong Lee
Apple Neural Engine
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-84494: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin
AppleAVD
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: An information leakage was addressed with additional validation.
CVE-2026-112704: Josh Maine of Calif.io
AppleAVD
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112416: an anonymous researcher, Dohyeon An @PILAB Technology, Inc, Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com), Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin
AppleAVD
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112415: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com), Rahul Raj
AppleAVD
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112454: @Licht_jb, Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)
AppleMobileFileIntegrity
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to read or write to protected files
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2026-112539: Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos
AppleRAID
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Mounting a malicious disk image may cause unexpected system termination
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112544: Peter Malone
AppleRAID
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-112531: Chanwit Muenprakoddee (ChemIndy)
Archive Utility
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker with root privileges may be able to access protected user data
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2026-86939: Lance Cain - Senior Security Researcher at SpecterOps Inc.
ArchiveService
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may bypass Gatekeeper checks
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-86937: YingMuo (@YingMuo) of DEVCORE Research Team, Paul Montgomery (@nullevent)
ArchiveService
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may bypass Gatekeeper checks
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112568: an anonymous researcher
Audio
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112546: lunar815, Surej Sekhar, Piotr Jerzy Duszynski, r3pwnx (@r3pwnx), an anonymous researcher, Lily Cohl (@GenericCoding), Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Audio
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.
CVE-2026-112675: Lakshay Sharma (MrW0r57), Abodi Dawoud
AVEVideoEncoder
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112705: Marco Schmitt, Andrey Chernykh, Josh Maine of Calif.io
AVEVideoEncoder
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112689: Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence
AVEVideoEncoder
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112470: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)
CVE-2026-112469: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)
CVE-2026-112468: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)
AVEVideoEncoder
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112466: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)
Bluetooth
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker in physical proximity may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2026-112566: Chris Bailey - Short Circuit
BOM
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A maliciously crafted ZIP archive may bypass Gatekeeper checks
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112672: 준우 이, Pasquale Scola
BOM
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to heap corruption
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112670: Bhaswanth Chigurupati
Calendar
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2026-112678: Neon, Niels Hofmans, Mustafa Calap (@ordinal0, dbg.re)
Calendar
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted calendar invitation may lead to memory corruption
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112619: Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero
Carbon Core
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may bypass Gatekeeper checks
Description: A file quarantine bypass was addressed with additional checks.
CVE-2026-86941: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs
CloudKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2026-86896: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs
ColorSync
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in disclosure of process memory
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-86988: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero, Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin
ColorSync
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may disclose process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112429: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero
Compression
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-113910: Tucker Willenborg
configd
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation.
CVE-2026-112545: Frederick Kaludis (Coiffeur0x90), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs
Control Center
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2026-112462: DEVADATH V L, Junyeong Lee (jylab.github.io), Weeraphat Srisutham, Yejun Kim, an anonymous researcher, Zwei Tasse Kaffee, Lakshay Sharma (MrW0r57)
Core Image
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to unexpected process termination
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112471: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin
CoreAudio
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted media file may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-113912: an anonymous researcher, 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com), Roman Zabicki, Anna Groza (@pwnlambda) of Calif.io
CoreAudio
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt process memory
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-113907: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin
CoreAudio
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt process memory
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved locking.
CVE-2026-112708: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
CoreAudio
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to memory corruption
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.
CVE-2026-86972: an anonymous researcher, Meta Product Security
CoreAudio
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-86969: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin
CoreAudio
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker in radio range may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: A heap buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112638: Përparim Mjeku, Altin Gashi, Altin Gashi
CoreGraphics
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-113950: Substrate, Stefan Esser (Calif)
CoreMedia
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-86992: Niels Hofmans
CoreMedia
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Parsing a file may lead to an unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112688: 정우 하 (@0xfa11babe), Chris Bailey - Short Circuit
CoreMedia
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to access the camera without user permission
Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2026-86990: Mustafa Calap (@ordinal0, dbg.re)
CoreStorage
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-113946: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon), Jakob Pammer, Peter Malone
CoreStorage
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-113945: Peter Malone
CVE-2026-113940: Jay K Patel and Jay J Patel, Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)
CVE-2026-113938: 준우 이
CVE-2026-113937: Jay Patel
CVE-2026-113936: Jay K Patel and Jay J Patel
CVE-2026-113935: Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)
CoreStorage
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-113944: Peter Malone
CVE-2026-113942: Peter Malone
CVE-2026-113941: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
CoreStorage
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted disk image may cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-113943: Peter Malone
CVE-2026-113939: Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)
CoreStorage
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-113934: Thanatos Tian (HKPolyU) & wgg with Diffract
CoreSymbolication
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112604: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
CoreText
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112656: Nurihan Kim (HanTul) working with TrendAI Zero Day Initiative
Crash Reporter
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.
CVE-2026-113900: Frederick Kaludis (Coiffeur0x90), YingQi Shi (@Mas0nShi) of DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab, Lakshay Sharma (MrW0r57)/WorstCase Labs., Ashish Kavishwar, Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Iru and Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman)
CUPS
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A local attacker may be able to elevate their privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-65327: Sanny Mitra
CVMS
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112530: Alfredo Pesoli (@__rev) of Bynar.io, Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos
DesktopServices
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to bypass Gatekeeper checks
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112444: Paul Montgomery (@nullevent)
DesktopServices
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may bypass Gatekeeper checks
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112428: Koh M. Nakagawa (@tsunek0h) of FFRI Security, Inc., Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs
Directory Utility
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2026-112483: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Iru, Lyutoon
Disk Images
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112502: Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)
DiskArbitration
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2026-112570: Andrey Chernykh (BypassLabs.ai), Keisuke Hosoda
dyld
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to bypass sandbox restrictions
Description: This issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2026-112534: an anonymous researcher
FileProvider
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.
CVE-2026-113896: R4mbb, Rodolphe BRUNETTI (@eisw0lf) of Lupus Nova
FontParser
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-86970: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)
FontParser
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112683: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)
FontParser
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112642: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin
FontParser
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.
CVE-2026-112432: D4rthL
GPUTools
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Unpacking a maliciously crafted archive may lead to unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: This issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2026-113947: Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)
Heimdal
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to impersonate a Kerberos KDC
Description: An issue with signature validation was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112518: Roman Zabicki, Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security
Heimdal
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-86943: Christian Niel Angel of Protectiv IT Security Inc.
Heimdal
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may cause an unexpected process termination
Description: A double free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-112410: Piotr Jerzy Duszynski
Help Viewer
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data
Description: This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks.
CVE-2026-112523: powerprove, Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog), Christian Niel Angel of Protectiv IT Security Inc. (protectiv.ph), R4mbb, Lyutoon, Michael Benich, Seung Je Seong, Niels Hofmans
HFS
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112424: Peter Malone
HFS
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112475: Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, Minseok Kim, Dave G., Thanatos Tian (HKPolyU) & wgg & xmr, Marco Schmitt
HFS
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to heap corruption
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112456: Jihwan Yoon, Yash Pandya, Parth Raval
HomeKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-86978: Garin R
HomeKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected system termination
Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112596: Garin R
iCloud
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2026-112647: Sattyam Yadav, onetwo, Robert Tran, Merrick Hare, Christian Niel Angel of Protectiv IT Security Inc. (protectiv.ph)
iCloud
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2026-112617: @pixiepointsec
ImageIO
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in disclosure of process memory
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112571: sh3rlock (김보겸)
ImageIO
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in disclosure of process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112561: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin
CVE-2026-112627: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero
ImageIO
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may corrupt process memory
Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112488: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero, Nik Tsytsarkin, an anonymous researcher
ImageIO
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112634: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero
CVE-2026-112629: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero
ImageIO
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112633: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero
CVE-2026-112614: PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi (@Bugeun), Rahul Raj, Piotr Jerzy Duszynski, Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero
ImageIO
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in disclosure of process memory
Description: An uninitialized memory issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112632: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero
CVE-2026-112630: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero
ImageIO
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in memory corruption
Description: An integer underflow was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112625: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero
IOGPUFamily
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112533: Sihyun Roh (Compsec, SNU), Andrey Chernykh
IOHIDFamily
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112515: Charles Stevenson, Seung Je Seong, Mathis Mansière
IOKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2026-112478: Nord0x, Marco Schmitt, an anonymous researcher, Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)
IOMobileFrameBuffer
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.
CVE-2026-112459: Lily Cohl (@GenericCoding), an anonymous researcher
IOStorageFamily
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112554: Bhuwan Bhetwal, Kwak Kiyong (@Pwnkai23), Song Nuri, Nicolas Seriot, Tommy DeVoss from Braze Security Team (@thedawgyg), Tucker Willenborg, Navapon Premkasem, Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, Peter Malone, Richard Zana
IOSurface
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved locking.
CVE-2026-112477: an anonymous researcher
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected changes to copy-on-write memory
Description: A memory integrity issue was addressed with improved handling of copy-on-write pages.
CVE-2026-112576: Pedro Pinho
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.
CVE-2026-112543: f0r of MurphySec
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112606: Wang Yu
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-65350: Nebula Security (@nebusecurity), Tim Michaud (@TimGMichaud) of Aginor.ai, Xinru Chi of Pangu Lab
CVE-2026-112679: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112532: Peter Malone
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-112517: Pasquale Scola, Wout van der Ploeg (woutvanderploeg.nl), John Lussier, Cem Onat Karagun, an anonymous researcher
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-112516: greenbynox, an anonymous researcher
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-112514: Marc Newlin of SkySafe, Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd., greenbynox
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-84495: Wang Yu
CVE-2026-112474: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112698: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd., OpenAI
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.
CVE-2026-112501: Cem Onat Karagun
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112476: Arnold Cartagena, Matt Suiche (@msuiche) of Tolmo
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to determine kernel memory layout
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112665: Will Estes
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112624: Jerry L. Knot
Kernel
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An unprivileged attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code as root
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112438: Jakob Pammer
LaunchServices
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may bypass Gatekeeper checks
Description: A file quarantine bypass was addressed with additional checks.
CVE-2026-112494: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit)
libarchive
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112522: Eliya M., Viacheslav Radiukov, Tristan Madani (Talence Security), Robert Tran
libcryptex
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to create files in protected directories
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-86945: Andrey Chernykh, an anonymous researcher
libxpc
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: This issue was addressed with improved permissions checking.
CVE-2026-112497: Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos
LinkPresentation
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in memory corruption
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112621: Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E) from Appknox, an anonymous researcher
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: The user's original email address may be leaked when using the Hide My Email feature
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2026-112500
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: A resource exhaustion issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112671: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted message may lead to a denial-of-service
Description: A stack overflow was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112414: Daniel Rodríguez, Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
mDNSResponder
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to leak memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112607: Pasquale Scola
MediaAnalysis
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.
CVE-2026-113915: Abodi Dawoud, Rodolphe BRUNETTI (@eisw0lf) of Lupus Nova, Zhongquan Li (@Guluisacat), Ilya Andr (andrd3v) of Positive Technologies
Messages
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination
Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112682: Mahmoud Abdelmoniem
Model I/O
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted 3D model may lead to memory corruption
Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112565: Musaab Khan (@bxff), Saoud Khalifah, stratan (@5tratan), Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com), Niels Hofmans
CVE-2026-112449: ret2happy (@ret2happy)
Model I/O
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112563: stratan (@5tratan)
CVE-2026-112553: stratan (@5tratan)
Model I/O
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112413: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Model I/O
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted 3D model may lead to memory corruption
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112485: Nik Tsytsarkin
Model I/O
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted 3D model may lead to memory corruption
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112461: 진규정 (Gyujeong Jin, @G1uN4sh), Lucas Parnell, ret2happy (@ret2happy), Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin, YingMuo (@YingMuo) of DEVCORE Research Team, Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Model I/O
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a 3D model may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112486: Md Rasel Bhuyan (www.linkedin.com/in/rasel-bhuyan), Musaab Khan (@bxff)
ncurses
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112550: Jonathan Bar Or (@yo_yo_yo_jbo)
PackageKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved handling of symbolic links.
CVE-2026-112421: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Iru and Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman)
PackageKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2026-113948: Aidan Hunt (forgechroma.com)
PackageKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.
CVE-2026-112442: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
Photos Storage
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-65397: Varik Matevosyan (@D4RK7ET), an anonymous researcher
Photos Storage
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access a user's Photos Library
Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.
CVE-2026-112676: Rodolphe BRUNETTI (@eisw0lf) of Lupus Nova
Photos Storage
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to bypass certain Privacy preferences
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112660: Prafull Dhiman, Alto_00000
ppp
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-113899: Siddharth Aeri
ppp
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to intercept network traffic
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2026-112542: Gabriel '0xv1n' Cardona, Mrunal Chawda, Tristan Madani (Talence Security), Kujtim Kryeziu (Sentry)
Printing
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation.
CVE-2026-112562: 도현 김, YEONGJAE SHIN, Ithrael, an anonymous researcher
Printing
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.
CVE-2026-112513: OSORI, wdszzml and Atuin Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine, Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Iru
quarantine
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2026-112569: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Iru, an anonymous researcher
CVE-2026-112498: an anonymous researcher
Quick Look
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-86925: JeongAhn Jang, Alto_00000, Nicolas Seriot, 김도현, Abodi Dawoud, Drin Raci of sentry.security, Jakob Pammer, Stuart Wallace, hamayanhamayan, Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E) from Appknox, Daniel Rodríguez, Ilya Andr (andrd3v), Rahul Raj, Mustafa Calap (@ordinal0, dbg.re)
RealityKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112491: Hongsik Kim (mnur)
Remote Management
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A user with screen sharing access may be able to view another user's screen
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2026-112480: ruitong (@abstract), Andrey Chernykh
Remote Management
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker on the local network may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt process memory
Description: A double free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-112457: Efstratios Kaplanellis (@5tratan) of Almamater Technologies, Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Remote Management
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution
Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112427: 준우 이, an anonymous researcher, Ruitong (Abstract Lab, University of Colorado Boulder; lab led by Yueqi Chen)
RemoteManagement
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved access control.
CVE-2026-112677: an anonymous researcher, 도현 김, Junyeong Lee (jylab.github.io), Niels Hofmans, Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs, Jonghoon Han (Aegis)
SceneKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a 3D model may result in disclosure of process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112425: stratan (@5tratan)
SceneKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to a denial-of-service or potentially disclose memory contents
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112423: Rahul Raj
SceneKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112540: f4&Zhiniang Peng with HUST, Geonha Lee (@leegn4a), Kwak Kiyong (@Pwnkai23), Song Nuri, Wout van der Ploeg (woutvanderploeg.nl), Substrate, Piotr Jerzy Duszynski, Tristan Madani (Talence Security), Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), an anonymous researcher
SceneKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to heap corruption
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112464: 정우 하 (@0xfa11babe), Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)
SceneKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected process termination
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-86991: Cem Onat Karagun, YUJUNG CHOI (@Dusker), Mathis Mansière, Rahul Raj
Screen Sharing
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Connecting to a malicious VNC server may cause a denial-of-service
Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112519: Piotr Jerzy Duszynski, Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Screen Sharing Server
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination or heap corruption
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-84590: koocolb, Tristan Madani (Talence Security), Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon), Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)
Screen Sharing Server
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious Screen Sharing peer may be able to create arbitrary symlinks as root
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved logic.
CVE-2026-112511: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Screen Sharing Server
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may cause an unexpected process termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-65384: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Screen Sharing Server
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges
Description: This issue was addressed with improved file handling.
CVE-2026-112484: Mahmoud Abdelmoniem
Screen Sharing Server
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker on the local network may be able to corrupt process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112482: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Screen Sharing Server
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker with the legacy VNC password for Screen Sharing may be able to copy files to the Mac
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112473: Alfredo Pesoli (@__rev) via Bynario Atlas (bynar.io)
Screen Sharing Server
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker on the local network may be able to cause unexpected process termination or disclose process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112481: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Screen Time
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved access control.
CVE-2026-112616: Drin Raci of sentry.security, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Mustafa Calap (@ordinal0, dbg.re), Robert Mindo, N.M.Praveen Nawarathne (@zblockrat), Ilya Andr (andrd3v), Sindre Sorhus
Security
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing web content may disclose sensitive information
Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-113913: Niels Hofmans, Stav Nir and Vladimir Tokarev
Security
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112521: Efstratios Kaplanellis (@5tratan) of Almamater Technologies, Richard Hyunho Im (@richeeta) at Route Zero Security
Security
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2026-112506: Robert Tran
Security
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112668: cnitlrt (@abstract), Roman Belovitskiy, Lyutoon, Art Pllana, Redon Gashi of Sentry, ruitong (@abstract), Surej Sekhar, Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, Teodor Sorescu (@teodorsorescu), Eddy Tsalolikhin, lokerxx, Phillip Groves, Sihyun Roh (Compsec, SNU)
CVE-2026-112437: lokerxx
CVE-2026-86936: cnitlrt (@abstract), lokerxx
CVE-2026-112434: ruitong (@abstract), lokerxx
Security
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An malicious app may be able to bypass certificate validation
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112652: Aditya Kumar
Security
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved validation of user attributes.
CVE-2026-112430: ruitong (@abstract)
SecurityAgent
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A downgrade issue was addressed with additional version checks.
CVE-2026-112493: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
Shortcuts
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112559: Lucas Lammer, Stuart Wallace
CVE-2026-112455: Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Rahul Raj
Siri
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access information about a user's contacts
Description: A file access issue existed with certain home folder files. This was addressed with improved access restrictions.
CVE-2026-86984: Albin Haliti
Siri
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112685: silo, Abodi Dawoud
Siri
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112658: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
SMB
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-86946: Jakob Pammer
SMB
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker with control of a network file server may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112552: Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos, Bhuwan Bhetwal, Feng Xue and XGPT of ThreatBook
smbx
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112526: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon), an anonymous researcher, Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security
smbx
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112510: Efstratios Kaplanellis (@5tratan) of Almamater Technologies, Andrey Chernykh
smbx
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service or disclose process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112451: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
smbx
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious Screen Sharing peer may be able to corrupt process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112505: an anonymous researcher, Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), Andrey Chernykh
SoftRAID
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112495: Lyutoon
Spotlight
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain elevated privileges
Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.
CVE-2022-26704: Joshua Mason of Mandiant, Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman)
Spotlight
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112567: zenith
Spotlight
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2026-112558: D4rthL
Spotlight
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-112557: D4rthL
Spotlight
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2026-112441: Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.
Spotlight
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: This issue was addressed with improved data access restriction.
CVE-2026-112628: Santiago Albertengo, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit
Storage
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2026-112487: YingQi Shi (@Mas0nShi) of DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab, Junyeong Lee (jylab.github.io), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs, Jaeyeong Lee, Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman), Lyutoon
StorageKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-112548: Surej Sekhar
StorageKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation.
CVE-2026-112541: Maher Azzouzi, Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs (nosebeard.co), Sindre Sorhus, Paul Montgomery (@nullevent), Mickey Jin (@patch1t), Frederick Kaludis (Coiffeur0x90)
StorageKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved handling of symbolic links.
CVE-2026-112535: Sindre Sorhus
StorageKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system
Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation.
CVE-2026-112504: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
StorageKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.
CVE-2026-112492: Alfredo Pesoli (@__rev) via Bynario Atlas (bynar.io)
System Preferences
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to access restricted system interfaces or launder launch attribution
Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access control.
CVE-2026-86968: Sindre Sorhus
System Settings
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker may tamper with code-signed applications to execute arbitrary code in the application's context
Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.
CVE-2026-112556: Paul Montgomery (@nullevent), Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
System Settings
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to bypass Gatekeeper checks
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2026-112512: YingQi Shi (@Mas0nShi) of DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab, Mufeed VH of Winfunc Research (winfunc.com), Mathis Mansière
System Settings
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2026-112453: Sindre Sorhus
TCC
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A privacy issue was addressed by moving sensitive data.
CVE-2026-112577: Ryan Dowd (@_rdowd)
Thread
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker in physical proximity may be able to craft malicious network traffic to gain access to a Thread network
Description: This issue was addressed with improved authentication.
CVE-2026-112595: Wesley Wineberg
Time Machine
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2026-112447: 云开 江, Joshua Maina, Ithrael, Mahmoud Gamal (@Zombiehelp54)
udf
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112529: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
udf
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
CVE-2026-112524: Tim Michaud (@TimGMichaud) of Aginor.ai, Thanatos Tian (HKPolyU) & wgg & 2st with Diffract, Peter Malone
udf
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112508: Aditya Kumar, Aswin Kumar Gokula Kannan, David Krehwinkel
USB
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious USB device may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112479: Rotce, Sandeep Wawdane (thecybersandeep), Marc Newlin of SkySafe, Ankur Saini of Volexity, Kwak Kiyong (@Pwnkai23), Song nuri
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 328114
CVE-2026-113904: Lily Cohl (@GenericCoding), Do Young Park (adawn), MYUNGYONG LEE, Luke Francis (@lukefr09), Shubham Chaskar, Kwak Kiyong, Song Nuri
WebKit Bugzilla: 317465
CVE-2026-112599: Avinash Kumar Thapa & Jay Kaushik Patel
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks.
WebKit Bugzilla: 321609
CVE-2026-86974: Hossein Lotfi (@hosselot) of TrendAI Zero Day Initiative
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 318331
CVE-2026-86986: an anonymous researcher
WebKit Bugzilla: 328131
CVE-2026-112693: 은태 장
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash
Description: This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
WebKit Bugzilla: 318522
CVE-2026-86985: Pasquale Scola
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may result in the disclosure of process memory
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
WebKit Bugzilla: 323130
CVE-2026-112699: an anonymous researcher
WebKit Bugzilla: 323148
CVE-2026-112680: Franz Bettag, Kwak Kiyong, Song Nuri
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 322916
CVE-2026-112697: OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, 은태 장
WebKit Bugzilla: 324150
CVE-2026-112655: Euntae Jang
WebKit Bugzilla: 322120
CVE-2026-112651: Euntae Jang
WebKit Bugzilla: 323265
CVE-2026-112623: pwn2addr, Lily Cohl (@GenericCoding)
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process termination
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved locking.
WebKit Bugzilla: 323986
CVE-2026-112686: an anonymous researcher
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash
Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 328132
CVE-2026-112684: Gia Bui (@yabeow) from Calif.io
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process termination
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 322033
CVE-2026-112673: Myungyong Lee
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 323173
CVE-2026-112669: remanone (@remanone_)
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process termination
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 322671
CVE-2026-112695: Josef Korbel (Citadelo), Luke Francis (@lukefr09)
WebKit Bugzilla: 321669
CVE-2026-112666: Luke Francis (@lukefr09)
WebKit Bugzilla: 321934
CVE-2026-112654: Charles Kern
WebKit Bugzilla: 323227
CVE-2026-112653: Malik M. (@m411k_)
WebKit Bugzilla: 324735
CVE-2026-112615: Chris Rohlf with Anthropic Research
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 321982
CVE-2026-112659: OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, Chris Rohlf with Anthropic Research
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 324262
CVE-2026-112640: an anonymous researcher
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A website may be able to use a media format that should be restricted in Lockdown Mode
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
WebKit Bugzilla: 324004
CVE-2026-113952: Drinor Selmanaj (Sentry)
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 323097
CVE-2026-113949: an anonymous researcher
WebKit
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to unexpected memory modification
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 321652
CVE-2026-113903: Eddy Tsalolikhin, OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, Lily Cohl (@GenericCoding)
WebKit Canvas
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 323377
CVE-2026-112637: Chris Rohlf with Anthropic Research, 은태 장
WebKit JavaScript Bindings
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 328141
CVE-2026-112626: Euntae Jang, Luke Francis (@lukefr09), Shubham Chaskar, Josef Korbel (Citadelo)
WebKit Process Model
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to break out of Web Content sandbox
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
WebKit Bugzilla: 328129
CVE-2026-113897: Luke Francis, Jackson Kuja
WebKit Process Model
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 322743
CVE-2026-112639: Luke Francis (@lukefr09)
WebRTC
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 323096
CVE-2026-113901: Kwak Kiyong (@Pwnkai23), Song Nuri
WebRTC
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
WebKit Bugzilla: 323079
CVE-2026-86973: Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), an anonymous researcher
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker in physical proximity may be able to corrupt process memory
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-113909: an anonymous researcher
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: This issue was addressed with improved data protection.
CVE-2026-112537: Sindre Sorhus
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt process memory
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-112443: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker in radio range may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2026-112622: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
Wi-Fi
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2026-112620: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
WindowServer
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: An app may be able to monitor keystrokes without user permission
Description: The issue was addressed with improved handling of secure input state.
CVE-2026-112575: Ricardo Prado
zsh
Available for: macOS Golden Gate
Impact: A malicious app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.
CVE-2026-112555: Phillip Groves
Additional recognition
Apple Neural Engine
We would like to acknowledge Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies) for their assistance.
AppleFSCompression
We would like to acknowledge Dawar Abbasi (x_x10o9), Tucker Willenborg for their assistance.
AppleRAID
We would like to acknowledge Ashish Kunwar for their assistance.
Archive Utility
We would like to acknowledge Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon) for their assistance.
Audio
We would like to acknowledge Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon) for their assistance.
AVEVideoEncoder
We would like to acknowledge Josh Maine of Calif.io, Narendra Singh (@_3P1C) for their assistance.
Bluetooth
We would like to acknowledge John De Armas, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
CipherML
We would like to acknowledge Nils Hanff (@nils1729@chaos.social) of Hasso Plattner Institute for their assistance.
Core Location
We would like to acknowledge 糖豆爸爸(@晴天组织), 이재영 for their assistance.
CoreAudio
We would like to acknowledge Meta Product Security for their assistance.
CoreCrypto
We would like to acknowledge Niels Hofmans for their assistance.
CoreStorage
We would like to acknowledge Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon) for their assistance.
curl
We would like to acknowledge Muhamad Syaiful for their assistance.
Feedback Assistant
We would like to acknowledge Abodi Dawoud for their assistance.
File Bookmark
We would like to acknowledge Niels Hofmans, Souta Sugiyama for their assistance.
FileProvider
We would like to acknowledge Adriatik Raci, R4mbb for their assistance.
Foundation
We would like to acknowledge Jaya Surya Kommireddy for their assistance.
ImageIO
We would like to acknowledge Koh M. Nakagawa (@tsunek0h) of FFRI Security, Inc., Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero, Meta Product Security, Musaab Khan (@bxff), Piotr Jerzy Duszynski for their assistance.
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd., Robert Tran, Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security for their assistance.
libarchive
We would like to acknowledge Muhammad Abdul Rehman, Owais Lone for their assistance.
libc
We would like to acknowledge Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com) for their assistance.
mDNSResponder
We would like to acknowledge Aswin Kumar Gokula Kannan, Lucas Lammer, pixillated for their assistance.
Music
We would like to acknowledge Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon) for their assistance.
Notes
We would like to acknowledge Joshua Thomas, Mikita Sakalouski for their assistance.
Safari
We would like to acknowledge Azza Tegar Naufal Ataullah, Exell Nakano, Zhiyang Zeng (@Wester), satrya wira yudha for their assistance.
Screen Sharing
We would like to acknowledge Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon) for their assistance.
Security Research
We would like to acknowledge Anna Groza (@pwnlambda) of Calif.io for their assistance.
Service Workers
We would like to acknowledge Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin for their assistance.
Single Sign-On
We would like to acknowledge Johan Wahyudi, Rıza Sabuncu - x.com/rizasabuncu for their assistance.
SMB
We would like to acknowledge Feng Xue and XGPT of ThreatBook for their assistance.
SoftwareUpdate
We would like to acknowledge Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon) for their assistance.
Storage Driver
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Virtualization
We would like to acknowledge Nicolò Altamura for their assistance.
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos, Stan Shaw, Volodymyr Diachenko, Wael Alolowi, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
WebKit Sandboxing
We would like to acknowledge Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos for their assistance.
WindowServer
We would like to acknowledge Niels Hofmans for their assistance.
xar
We would like to acknowledge Meridian Miftari for their assistance.
zip
We would like to acknowledge Feng Xue and XGPT of ThreatBook for their assistance.
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