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About the security content of macOS Golden Gate 27

This document describes the security content of macOS Golden Gate 27.

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macOS Golden Gate 27

Released September 14, 2026

Accelerate Framework

Available for: MacBook Neo (2026), MacBook Air with Apple silicon (2020 and later), MacBook Pro with Apple silicon (2020 and later), iMac with Apple silicon (2021 and later), Mac mini with Apple silicon (2020 and later), Mac Studio (2022 and later), and Mac Pro with Apple silicon (2023)

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to unexpected process termination

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-86882: Peter Malone

Accessibility

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: This issue was addressed with improved data protection.

CVE-2026-43664: Stuart Wallace, Ilya Andr (andrd3v), Rosyna Keller of Totally Not Malicious Software, CJ Vana, David Strnadel, Daniel Febrero, Asaf Cohen, Gongyu Ma (@Mezone0), Jian Lee (@speedyfriend433)

Accounts

Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-65404: Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E) from Appknox, Stuart Wallace, 이재영

APFS

Impact: An application may be able to access restricted files

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved path validation.

CVE-2026-86910: an anonymous researcher

APFS

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-2026-84523: Cem Onat Karagun, an anonymous researcher

App Store

Impact: A local app may be able to read a persistent account identifier

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-86888: Zhongcheng Li (CK01)

AppKit

Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-84587: an anonymous researcher

Apple Account

Impact: A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information

Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84586: Prashan Samarathunge, Zhongcheng Li (CK01)

Apple Account

Impact: An app may be able to use the Sign In With Apple authentication flow to access the user's Apple Account

Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-20683: Dem0ns (@天府简易信工作室), Abdelhak Kherroubi, Jasminder Pal Singh, Lehan Dilusha Jayasingha (Sri Lanka)

Apple Intelligence

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Apple Intelligence security prompts

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84601: Nick Cook, Sentry Flag

Apple Neural Engine

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-65408: tamdao

AppleAVD

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-65407: Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence

AppleDouble

Impact: Mounting a disk image with maliciously crafted files may lead to unexpected system termination

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84519: Richard Zana

AppleFDEKeyStore

Impact: A local attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.

CVE-2026-84520: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

AppleMobileFileIntegrity

Impact: A malicious app may be able to break out of its sandbox

Description: A validation issue existed in the entitlement verification. This issue was addressed with improved validation of the process entitlement.

CVE-2026-65381: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

Archive Utility

Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox

Description: This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks.

CVE-2026-84584: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

Archive Utility

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84522: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

ATS

Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data

Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.

CVE-2026-84525: D4rthL

ATS

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-65342: Ahmed Alwardani, Mohamad Dawoud / Abodi Dawoud

Authentication Services

Impact: An app may be able to delete credentials stored in Keychain

Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2026-86905: Ilya Andr (andrd3v)

AuthKit

Impact: A local app may be able to read a persistent account identifier

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-84583: Zhongcheng Li from IES Red Team

autofs

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Gatekeeper checks

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-84570: Mr.Gedik (@h4ck2s3c)

autofs

Impact: An attacker with control of a network directory server may be able to execute arbitrary code with root privileges

Description: A path traversal issue was addressed with improved path validation.

CVE-2026-84568: Mr.Gedik (@h4ck2s3c) of Turkish Technology

Automator

Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84535: Kun Peeks (@SwayZGl1tZyyy), Oren Yomtov, Morris Richman (@morrisinlife), Sindre Sorhus

AVEVideoEncoder

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-65410: Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research

AVEVideoEncoder

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-84616: Peter Malone

AVEVideoEncoder

Impact: A sandboxed app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84607: Ruslan Dautov

BackgroundAssets

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-65406: Ye Zhang (@VAR10CK) of Baidu Security

Bluetooth

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-65414

Bluetooth

Impact: An app may gain unauthorized access to Bluetooth

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84560: an anonymous researcher

Bluetooth

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.

CVE-2026-84631: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs

cd9660

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-84567: Sanny Mitra, Sihyun Roh (Compsec, SNU), ngockhanh from Cystack, Ataberk Yavuzer, 정우 하 (@0xfa11babe), Kun Peeks (@SwayZGl1tZyyy), Surej Sekhar, Suresh Sundaram, Hari Shanmugam (The Hxr1)

copyfile

Impact: An archive may be able to bypass Gatekeeper

Description: A file quarantine bypass was addressed with additional checks.

CVE-2026-65399: Rishabh Jain (rjcyber) of cyberplanet, Pasquale Scola, an anonymous researcher

Core Bluetooth

Impact: An app may be able to access Bluetooth device information

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-86891: Dawuge of Shuffle Team

CoreDrag

Impact: An app 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-2026-43683: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)

CoreMedia

Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data

Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.

CVE-2026-43789: 이재영

CoreMedia

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2026-64752: Nik Tsytsarkin

CoreMedia

Impact: A sandboxed process may be able to circumvent sandbox restrictions

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-86876: Chris Bailey - Short Circuit

CoreMedia

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-2026-65344: Siyeong kim

CoreML

Impact: A sandboxed app may be able to access restricted files

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved path validation.

CVE-2026-84624: AL Najafi, tamdao

CoreMotion

Impact: An app may be able to access motion data from headphones without user consent

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-43737: Stuart Wallace

CoreServices

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84574: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

CoreServices

Impact: A malicious application may be able to access restricted files

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-84559: Ryan Hughes

CoreServices

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.

CVE-2026-43786: Kujtim Kryeziu (Sentry)

CoreText

Impact: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service

Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-65412: Pavan Nallamothu

CoreText

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-2026-84596: ret2happy, Meta Product Security

CoreUI

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-2026-84575: Mustafa Calap (@ordinal0, dbg.re)

CoreUI

Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial of service

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84489: stratan (@5tratan), Peter Malone

CoreUI

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to unexpected app termination

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84571: stratan (@5tratan), Peter Malone

CoreUI

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted asset catalog may result in disclosure of process memory

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-43738: Peter Malone

CoreUI

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted asset catalog may lead to unexpected process termination

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84511: Rahul Raj, stratan (@5tratan)

CUPS

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-84563: Yongyue WANG AKA Brian.W of OKX security, Omar Cerrito

CUPS

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to cause a denial-of-service

Description: This is a vulnerability in open source code and Apple Software is among the affected projects. The CVE-ID was assigned by a third party. Learn more about the issue and CVE-ID at cve.org.

CVE-2026-34979: Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security, Юлия Мерцалова

CUPS

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: An injection issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-43698: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs

CUPS

Impact: An app may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-64790: Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team

CUPS

Impact: A remote user may cause an unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.

CVE-2026-43692: Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team

CUPS

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to cause a denial-of-service

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84554: Joseph Shamoon, Meshaal @ Darkcov

CUPS

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-43691: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs

CUPS

Impact: An application may be able to access restricted files

Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84541: 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com）

CUPS

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84540: Yongyue WANG AKA Brian.W of OKX security, 章鱼哥@aipy （aipyaipy.com）, instantraaamen (github.com/instantraaamen) Contact: masa.shiramizu@gmail.com

CUPS

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may result in unexpected app termination or disclosure of process memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84516: 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com）

DeviceCheck

Impact: An app may be able to read persistent device identifiers

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved access control.

CVE-2026-84612: N.M.Praveen Nawarathne (@zblockrat), James Gill (@jjtech@infosec.exchange)

Directory Utility

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84505: Tommy DeVoss from Braze Security Team (@thedawgyg)

Disk Images

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted disk image may lead to unexpected app termination

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84565: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)

Disk Images

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-84552: Tommy DeVoss from Braze Security Team (@thedawgyg), flower xu, Adriatik Raci, PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi (@Bugeun), Peter Malone, Daisuke Hatakeyama and Ryohei Ueki (@SYZD Research), Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel)

Disk Images

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.

CVE-2026-84550: Daisuke Hatakeyama and Ryohei Ueki (@SYZD Research), Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel)

Disk Images

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-65362: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs, Adriatik Raci, Manish Bhatt, Amazon Leo Security, Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)

Disk Images

Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted disk image may cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84512: Daisuke Hatakeyama and Ryohei Ueki (@SYZD Research)

exFAT

Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted volume may lead to unexpected system termination

Description: A heap buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84510: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin, Richard Zana

exFAT

Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted exFAT volume may cause unexpected system termination or kernel memory disclosure

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-86901: an anonymous researcher

exFAT

Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted exFAT volume may cause unexpected system termination or kernel memory disclosure

Description: An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-86900: ngockhanh from Cystack, an anonymous researcher

File Bookmark

Impact: An app may be able to modify a file it only had permission to read

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-43785: Junyeong Lee (jylab.github.io), Merrick Hare, Aditya Kumar, John Nzyuko Uvyu, Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)

file_cmds

Impact: Extracting a maliciously crafted archive may allow an attacker to write arbitrary files

Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-84534: Geoffrey Lovelace

Filters

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-43688: Peter Malone

FontParser

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font file may lead to unexpected app termination

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84524: an anonymous researcher

FontParser

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84597: Nik Tsytsarkin

Foundation

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions on the system pasteboards.

CVE-2026-84569: Yurii Bakurov, Sindre Sorhus, Asaf Cohen

Foundation

Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial of service

Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-65409: Bruce Dang of Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research

Foundation

Impact: A malicious app may be able to bypass clickjacking protections for secure prompts

Description: This issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-86911: Ron Masas of BreakPoint.SH, an anonymous researcher

Game Center

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-84618: Luke Symons

Graphics

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.

CVE-2026-84492: Tommy DeVoss from Braze Security Team (@thedawgyg), Jiyong Yang

Heimdal

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to modify network traffic

Description: A cryptographic issue was addressed with improved integrity checks.

CVE-2026-84533: Vishal Patidar, Roman Zabicki

Heimdal

Impact: A user in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information

Description: This is a vulnerability in open source code and Apple Software is among the affected projects. The CVE-ID was assigned by a third party. Learn more about the issue and CVE-ID at cve.org.

CVE-2022-3437: Roman Zabicki

HFS

Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted disk image may cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84581: Feng Xue and XGPT of ThreatBook, Alfredo Pesoli (@__rev) of Bynar.io, Jonathan Bar Or (@yo_yo_yo_jbo)

HFS

Impact: Mounting a malicious disk image may cause unexpected system termination

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-28934: Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security, 정우 하, Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, Peter Malone, Dun

iCloud

Impact: An app may be able to identify a user across reinstalls

Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of identifiers.

CVE-2026-84606: Ilya Andr (andrd3v)

Image Capture

Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data

Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-64756: Luke Symons

ImageIO

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to a denial-of-service

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-64714: an anonymous researcher

ImageIO

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in disclosure of process memory

Description: An uninitialized memory issue was addressed with improved memory initialization.

CVE-2026-84564: Justin O'Leary

ImageIO

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-2026-86869: Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Meta Red Team X, Niels Hofmans, Geonha Lee (@leegn4a)

ImageIO

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-2026-65395: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero, Varik Matevosyan

IOKit

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-28969: Mihalis Haatainen, Ashish Kunwar, Ari Hawking, 이재영

IOMobileFrameBuffer

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-65398: Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Mustafa Calap (@ordinal0, dbg.re), David Strnadel, Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin

IOSurfaceAccelerator

Impact: An app may be able to leak sensitive kernel state

Description: An information leakage was addressed with additional validation.

CVE-2026-64760: an anonymous researcher, Seiji Sakurai (@HeapSmasher), Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence

iWork

Impact: A malicious app may be able to break out of its sandbox

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-65354: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Iru

Kernel

Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted disk image may cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2026-84588: Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon), an anonymous researcher

Kernel

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-2026-28968: genter0, Svetoslav Stolarov & Aisa Fox, Josh Maine of Calif.io, Dun

Kernel

Impact: A local attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-84566: Bernhard Jackiewicz

Kernel

Impact: A local user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory

Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.

CVE-2026-65415: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd., Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io)

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A double free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-84561: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd., Bhaswanth Chigurupati

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.

CVE-2026-84630: Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security

CVE-2026-65401: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

CVE-2026-65360: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

CVE-2026-65358: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A double free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-84558: James Young

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-65377: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd., Ye Zhang (@VAR10CK) of Baidu Security

Kernel

Impact: An app with root privileges may be able to read uninitialized kernel memory

Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-84622: Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.)

Kernel

Impact: Connecting to a malicious NFS server may cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84549: Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, Surya Narayan Kushwaha

Kernel

Impact: A malicious app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-43689: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs

Kernel

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-2026-84619: genter0, Eddy Tsalolikhin, James Duffy (@0x4A616D657344)

Kernel

Impact: A malicious application may bypass Gatekeeper checks

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-65369: an anonymous researcher

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-86917: Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.)

Kernel

Impact: Connecting to a malicious NFS server may cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84544: Abhijeet Singh (www.linkedin.com/in/abhiunix/), Surya Narayan Kushwaha

Kernel

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-43790: Omar Cerrito

Kernel

Impact: Connecting to a malicious NFS server may disclose kernel memory

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-43687: R4mbb of KRsecurity, Peter Malone

Kernel

Impact: Connecting to a malicious NFS server may lead to kernel memory corruption

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-43686: Peter Malone

Kernel

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service

Description: A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84538: Stuart Thomas

Kernel

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-2026-43684: Peter Malone

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to determine kernel memory layout

Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-65405: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kernel

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-65364: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory

Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-84530: Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies)

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-84521: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

CVE-2026-65402: Fábio Luís @scanpt, Richard Zana, Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kernel

Impact: A local user 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-2026-65359: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84517: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kernel

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-2026-84507: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-86903: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kernel

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-84602: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Kext Management

Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system

Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.

CVE-2026-84514: Mohamed Wedatalla, Arjanit Isufi, Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)

Keychain Access

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved access control.

CVE-2026-84556: Adrián Díaz Aguilar, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Peter Malone, HvxyZLF

LaunchServices

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation.

CVE-2026-65382: an anonymous researcher

libarchive

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination

Description: A heap buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-86870: Kitten Food

libxpc

Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-86894: Dave G.

libxpc

Impact: An app may be able to bypass sandbox restrictions

Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.

CVE-2026-84577: Dave G. and Alex Radocea of supernetworks.org

Mail

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-84573: Dawuge of Shuffle Team

Mail

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-43787: Armend Gashi

MediaRemote

Impact: A sandboxed app may be able to access the System Keychain

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84628: Myeonghun Pak, Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon), Alan Banderas (@creeper4004)

Messages

Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-43741: Dawuge of Shuffle Team

MobileAccessoryUpdater

Impact: Connecting a malicious accessory may cause unexpected system termination

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-86924: Matthew Zamat

Model I/O

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected process termination

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.

CVE-2026-84497: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit)

NetworkExtension

Impact: An app may be able to access local network devices without user consent

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84585: Dmytro Merkulov

NetworkExtension

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-43695: Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos

NetworkExtension

Impact: An app may be able to identify what other apps a user has installed

Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84626: Sindre Sorhus, Hoffcona of IES Red Team

NSDocument

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation.

CVE-2026-86902: silo

odproxyd

Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-64712: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs

Photos Storage

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-84491: an anonymous researcher

quarantine

Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-84580: an anonymous researcher

quarantine

Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-84578: Kenneth Chew

QuartzCore

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-84576: Dora Orak, @Ethan Arbuckle, and @leptos_null

Quick Look

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted document may lead to an out-of-bounds read

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84548: Peter Malone

RealityKit

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-2026-28966: stratan (@5tratan)

RealityKit

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted file may cause unexpected process termination or disclose process memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84532: Hongsik Kim (mnur), stratan (@5tratan)

Reminders

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-65403: Rahul Raj

Safari

Impact: A malicious website may be able to determine what apps a user has installed

Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.

CVE-2026-84518: Bálint Magyar (balintmagyar.com)

Safe Browsing

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.

CVE-2026-86897: Stuart Wallace

Sandbox

Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data

Description: An issue existed in the handling of snapshots. The issue was resolved with improved permissions logic.

CVE-2026-65380: Kieran Klukas (taciturnaxolotl)

Sandbox

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved access control.

CVE-2026-84555: Liu Xue & 九宫格 of Chongqing Telecom

Sandbox

Impact: An app may be able to bypass network restrictions

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-84551: Issa Sancho

Sandbox Profiles

Impact: An app may be able to fingerprint the user

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.

CVE-2026-84625: Ilya Andr (andrd3v) of Positive Technologies, CJ Vana

SceneKit

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted 3D file may lead to an out-of-bounds read

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-43697: Peter Malone

SceneKit

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may result in disclosure of process memory

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84487: stratan (@5tratan), Dhiyanesh Selvaraj (@redroot97), Peter Malone

SceneKit

Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial of service

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-65413: Peter Malone

SceneKit

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted 3D model may lead to memory corruption

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-84632: Peter Malone

SceneKit

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted 3D model may lead to memory corruption

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84620: Peter Malone

SceneKit

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-2026-84546: Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), stratan (@5tratan), Peter Malone

CVE-2026-84611: Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)

SceneKit

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted 3D scene may lead to unexpected process termination

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84526: stratan (@5tratan)

Screen Sharing Server

Impact: An attacker on the network may be able to authenticate to Screen Sharing without valid credentials

Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-65400: Alfredo Pesoli (@__rev) via Bynario Atlas (bynar.io)

Security

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to intercept network traffic

Description: A certificate validation issue was addressed with improved certificate validation.

CVE-2026-86889: Jaeho Nam, Jungbum Lee, Sangwi Kang, Hyeonguk Ko and Taekyoung Kwon from SNU CSE MMLAB (mmlab.snu.ac.kr)

Security

Impact: An attacker with a compromised intermediate certificate authority may be able to issue certificates with arbitrary extended key usages

Description: A certificate validation issue was addressed with improved certificate validation.

CVE-2026-86881: Surya Narayan Kushwaha, Roman Zabicki, John Lussier, Filip Olszak

Security

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted NTLM input may lead to unexpected app termination

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84531: Meshaal (@unrealmesh)

Shortcuts

Impact: A malicious shortcut may be able to send messages without user confirmation

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84600: Owen Pawling (@owenpawling)

Siri

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-86884: Stanislav Jelezoglo, Gongyu Ma (twitter @Mezone0)

SMB

Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved locking.

CVE-2026-43690: Bruce Dang of Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research

SMB

Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted SMB network share may lead to system termination

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-43719: Jakob Pammer, Bruce Dang of Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research

SMB

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-65376: 재영 정, Bruce Dang of Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research

SMB

Impact: Connecting to a malicious SMB server may cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84543: Peter Malone

SMB

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-2026-84537: Feng Xue and XGPT of ThreatBook, Peter Malone

SMB

Impact: Connecting to a malicious SMB server may lead to unexpected system termination

Description: An integer underflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-84536: 재영 정, Feng Xue and XGPT of ThreatBook, Peter Malone

SMB

Impact: Connecting to a malicious SMB share may disclose kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-65365: Jay Patel, Peter Malone

SMB

Impact: Connecting to a malicious SMB server may lead to kernel memory corruption

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84515: 재영 정, Peter Malone

SMB

Impact: Connecting to a malicious SMB server may lead to unexpected system termination

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-84509: Dave G.

smbx

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-2026-84553: Stuart Thomas

Software Update

Impact: An app may be able to modify protected system files

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved path validation.

CVE-2026-84609: YingMuo (@YingMuo) of DEVCORE Research Team

SoftwareUpdate

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-65361: Rodolphe BRUNETTI (@eisw0lf) of Lupus Nova

Spotlight

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-65378: Abodi Dawoud, Sindre Sorhus, 糖豆爸爸(@晴天组织), Niels Hofmans, Robert Mindo

Spotlight

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved access control.

CVE-2026-84621: Abodi Dawoud, Armend Gashi, Ujjwal Reddy Kalvolu Sreenivasa Reddy, Johan Wahyudi

Spotlight

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to a denial-of-service or potentially disclose memory contents

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-43788: Narendra Singh (@_3P1C), Ashish Kunwar

Storage

Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-65348: Jérôme Djouder

Storage

Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-65345: Seung Je Seong, Ilya Andr (andrd3v) of Positive Technologies, Jakob Pammer, 이재영

StorageKit

Impact: An app may be able to read arbitrary files

Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization.

CVE-2026-43791: Meridian Miftari, Amy (amys.website), Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team

Symptom Framework

Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine a user's current location

Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries.

CVE-2026-84513: Sindre Sorhus

System Settings

Impact: An app may bypass Gatekeeper checks

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-65383: Zhongquan Li (@Guluisacat)

System Settings

Impact: An app may be able to bypass Gatekeeper checks

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-86909: Koh M. Nakagawa (@tsunek0h) of FFRI Security, Inc.

TCC

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.

CVE-2026-84527: Zeyang Li&Yuxiang Wang of Chongqing Telecom

TCC

Impact: An app may be able to modify Privacy preferences

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-84589: an anonymous researcher, Rodolphe Brunetti (@eisw0lf), Ryan Dowd (@_rdowd), Isaiah Ryan Ehlert (isaiahehlert@icloud.com), Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Iru

Terminal

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.

CVE-2026-28937: Charlie Weiss, Noah Gregory (wts.dev)

Touch Bar

Impact: An app may be able to capture Touch Bar content without authorization

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved entitlement checks.

CVE-2026-43696: an anonymous researcher

udf

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-2026-84572: Tomi (tk0) Koski (@tomikoski), Hari Shanmugam (The Hxr1)

udf

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-84506: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

WebDAV

Impact: An app may bypass Gatekeeper checks

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-28899: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs, Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange

WebDAV

Impact: Connecting to a malicious WebDAV server may result in code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-65374: HE WEI（ギカク）, Bruce Dang of Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research

WebDAV

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: The issue was addressed with improved authentication.

CVE-2026-65375: YingMuo (@YingMuo) of DEVCORE Research Team, Bruce Dang of Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research

WebDAV

Impact: Connecting to a malicious WebDAV server may lead to unexpected app termination

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

CVE-2026-43677: bubu, Omar Cerrito, HE WEI（ギカク）, Roman Zabicki, Richard Zana, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, Surya Narayan Kushwaha, Bruce Dang of Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research

WebKit

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process termination

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 310457

CVE-2026-84635: Souta Sugiyama

WebKit

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information

Description: A permissions issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

WebKit Bugzilla: 315121

CVE-2026-64753: Viggo Lekdorf

WebKit

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted webarchive file may lead to universal cross-site scripting

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 3182711

CVE-2026-86898: Tomi Garcia (archyxsec)

WebKit Canvas

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: 313935

CVE-2026-64718: Niels Hofmans, OGINOME Tomohito, an anonymous researcher

Xcode IDE

Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-65393: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

XPC

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-84617: Stuart Wallace

Additional recognition

Accounts

We would like to acknowledge Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog) for their assistance.

adv_cmds

We would like to acknowledge Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence for their assistance.

AirPort

We would like to acknowledge Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), Christian Figueroa, Dhiyanesh Selvaraj (@redroot97), Harish Santhanalakshmi Ganesan of Cisco AI Defense and a member of Cisco Talos, Niels Hofmans, Robert Mindo, Tae Woo Kim (CYTUR) for their assistance.

APFS

We would like to acknowledge Nick Max, Ruslan Dautov for their assistance.

App Intents

We would like to acknowledge Adetayo Adebimpe for their assistance.

Apple Account

We would like to acknowledge 糖豆爸爸(@晴天组织) for their assistance.

Apple Intelligence

We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

Apple Online Store Kit

We would like to acknowledge Pietro Francesco Tirenna (shielder.com), Zhongcheng Li (CK01) for their assistance.

AppleEvents

We would like to acknowledge Noah Gregory (wts.dev) for their assistance.

AppleKeyStore

We would like to acknowledge Abdurrahman Nafi, Francisco Knabe, Karol Mazurek (@Karmaz95) of AFINE, Somair Ansar, YOKI, an anonymous researcher, 晓娟谢 for their assistance.

AVEVideoEncoder

We would like to acknowledge tamdao for their assistance.

Bluetooth

We would like to acknowledge David Maynor, Jason Grove, Suresh Sundaram, Tae Woo Kim, jioundai for their assistance.

Calendar

We would like to acknowledge Dany Assuid, Jacob Hazak from Zero-Defense Labs, Varik Matevosyan, stratan (@5tratan) for their assistance.

cd9660

We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

CipherML

We would like to acknowledge Nils Hanff (@nils1729@chaos.social) of Hasso Plattner Institute for their assistance.

CloudKit

We would like to acknowledge Hikerell (Loadshine Lab) for their assistance.

Compression

We would like to acknowledge Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon) for their assistance.

configd

We would like to acknowledge Mohammad Seet for their assistance.

copyfile

We would like to acknowledge Morris Richman (@morrisinlife) and Jian Lee (@speedyfriend433) for their assistance.

CoreAudio

We would like to acknowledge Patrick Saif / x.com/weezerOSINT / github.com/sai2fast for their assistance.

CoreBluetooth - LE

We would like to acknowledge Ashmit Sharma & Atul RV, Dun, Maliq Barnard, Nicholas C. of Onymos Inc. (onymos.com), Peter Malone, Robert M for their assistance.

CoreGraphics

We would like to acknowledge Gandalf4a of PKU-Changsha Institute for Computing and Digital Economy for their assistance.

CoreMedia

We would like to acknowledge Chris Bailey - Short Circuit for their assistance.

CoreSymbolication

We would like to acknowledge Maher Azzouzi for their assistance.

CoreText

We would like to acknowledge Jian Lee (@speedyfriend433) for their assistance.

CoreUI

We would like to acknowledge Andrew Boni, Peter Malone for their assistance.

CUPS

We would like to acknowledge Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs, Katika Mohaseen, Roman Zabicki, Sanny Mitra, Yongyue WANG AKA Brian.W of OKX security, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

DataAccess

We would like to acknowledge Adetayo Adebimpe (Cyboghostginx) for their assistance.

Disk Images

We would like to acknowledge Noah Gregory (wts.dev), Peter Malone for their assistance.

DiskArbitration

We would like to acknowledge Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), FRO, Mustafa Ahmed, Thomas Guillem, 九宫格 of Chongqing Telecom for their assistance.

dyld

We would like to acknowledge Krishna Agarwal (Kr1shna4garwal) for their assistance.

FaceTime

We would like to acknowledge Souhaib Naceri for their assistance.

Family Sharing

We would like to acknowledge Robert Mindo for their assistance.

Files

We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

Finder

We would like to acknowledge Brian McNulty, Michael Telloyan for their assistance.

Heimdal

We would like to acknowledge Roman Zabicki for their assistance.

HFS

We would like to acknowledge Anton Pakhunov, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

iCloud

We would like to acknowledge 3ndy1(@_3ndy1) and moyu, Gabriel Rodrigues from Hakai, l3lue for their assistance.

Identity Services

We would like to acknowledge Ismael Esquilichi and Pablo Redondo (cmdresearch) for their assistance.

ImageIO

We would like to acknowledge Muhamad Syaiful, an anonymous researcher, songbird for their assistance.

Installer

We would like to acknowledge John Woodman, Mahmoud Abdelmoniem, Meridian Miftari, Niels Hofmans, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

IOMobileFrameBuffer

We would like to acknowledge Iain Harkiss, Jian Lee (@speedyfriend433) for their assistance.

IOSurfaceAccelerator

We would like to acknowledge Chanwit Muenprakoddee (ChemIndy), Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, Iain Harkiss, an anonymous researcher, beist, hxr1 for their assistance.

Kernel

We would like to acknowledge Ahmed Alwardani, Aswin Kumar Gokula Kannan, Bhaswanth Chigurupati, Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd., Cem Onat Karagun, DARKNAVY (@DarkNavyOrg), Gil Portnoy & Henry, James Duffy (@0x4A616D657344), Kang Sangkwun, Lyutoon, N.M.Praveen Nawarathne (@zblockrat), Nebula Security (@nebusecurity), Nicolas Seriot, Peter Malone, Redon Gashi of Sentry, Robert Tran, Suresh Sundaram, Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security, Xiang Li from AOSP Lab @Nankai University, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

libarchive

We would like to acknowledge Roman Zabicki, Surya Narayan Kushwaha, Paulos Yibelo, Sidharth Rajalakshmi for their assistance.

libxpc

We would like to acknowledge Fábio Luís (@scanpt), an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

Local Authentication

We would like to acknowledge Ashish Kunwar for their assistance.

LoginWindow

We would like to acknowledge Thomas Guillem for their assistance.

mDNSResponder

We would like to acknowledge Anton Pakhunov, Franciszek Kalinowski (striga.ai / isec.pl), Hannes Weissteiner, Roland Czerny, Simone Franza, Stefan Gast and Daniel Gruss of Graz University of Technology, and Johanna Ullrich of the Interdisciplinary Transformation University (IT:U), Issa Sancho, Jian Zhou, 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com） for their assistance.

ncurses

We would like to acknowledge Yashashree Gund for their assistance.

Notifications

We would like to acknowledge Abhay Kailasia (@abhay_kailasia) from Safran Mumbai India, Himanshu Bharti @Xpl0itme From Khatima, Jan Rokita (rokita.me) for their assistance.

PaperKit

We would like to acknowledge Rahul Raj for their assistance.

Passwords

We would like to acknowledge Catalin Lita of Moralis, Christian Kohlschütter, David Coomber of Info-Sec.CA, Lukasz Tulikowski at Software Cloud, Sujay Amin, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

ppp

We would like to acknowledge Cem Onat Karagun for their assistance.

Pro Res

We would like to acknowledge Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin for their assistance.

quarantine

We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

Quick Look

We would like to acknowledge Peter Malone for their assistance.

RemoteServiceDiscovery

We would like to acknowledge Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security, an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

Safari

We would like to acknowledge Dem0ns @天府简易信工作室 for their assistance.

Safari Downloads

We would like to acknowledge Barath Stalin K (linkedin.com/in/barathstalin), Exell Nakano, Manojkumar Jaganathan (linkedin.com/in/manojkumar-j-7ba35b202/) with HackerBro Technologies, Praditya Fajar Ramadhan, Zhiyang Zeng (@Wester), shobhit srivastav for their assistance.

Sandbox

We would like to acknowledge Asaf Cohen for their assistance.

Screen Sharing

We would like to acknowledge Asaf Cohen for their assistance.

Security

We would like to acknowledge Feng Xue and XGPT of ThreatBook, John Lussier, Masahiro Kawada (@kawakatz), Roman Zabicki, kem0n for their assistance.

Share Sheet

We would like to acknowledge Atul Kishor Jaiswal, Benjamin Hornbeck for their assistance.

Shortcuts

We would like to acknowledge Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Iru, Owen Pawling (@owenpawling) for their assistance.

SMB

We would like to acknowledge Omar Cerrito, Peter Malone for their assistance.

Terminal

We would like to acknowledge Stuart Thomas for their assistance.

Virtualization

We would like to acknowledge Ye Zhang (@VAR10CK) of Baidu Security for their assistance.

VoiceOver

We would like to acknowledge Hariji Vivek Pandey for their assistance.

WebDAV

We would like to acknowledge Bruce Dang of Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research, YingMuo (@YingMuo) of DEVCORE Research Team for their assistance.

WebKit

We would like to acknowledge @TristanInSec, Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari (@_G4ru_), Big Bear, Eddy Tsalolikhin, Henock Habte, Kenneth Hsu, Maher Azzouzi, Meridian Miftari, N13S, OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, Souta Sugiyama, Vitaly Simonovich, an anonymous researcher, hamayanhamayan, lattice, lebr0nli of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Security and Systems Lab, ret2happy, wwwlk for their assistance.

WebKit Canvas

We would like to acknowledge Utkarsh Pal for their assistance.

WebKit JavaScript Bindings

We would like to acknowledge hamayanhamayan for their assistance.

WindowServer

We would like to acknowledge Jex Amro for their assistance.

xar

We would like to acknowledge Matthew Dean for their assistance.

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Published Date: September 14, 2026