About the security content of Xcode 27

This document describes the security content of Xcode 27.

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Xcode 27

Xcode IDE

Available for: macOS Tahoe 26.6 and later

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)

Additional recognition

otool

We would like to acknowledge Eddy T for their assistance.

Swift

We would like to acknowledge Owais Lone (thesecguy), Yuval Fradkin for their assistance.

tapi

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

Xcode IDE

We would like to acknowledge Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) for their assistance.