CVE-2026-20683: High severity Apple iOS vulnerability

Published Sep 14, 2026
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Updated

Accelerate Framework. An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

Other sources

Accessibility. A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of user preferences.

— Apple

Accessibility. This issue was addressed with improved data protection.

— Apple

Accounts. An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

— Apple

An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS Sequoia 15.8, macOS Tahoe 26.7, visionOS 27. An app may be able to use the Sign In With Apple authentication flow to access the user's Apple Account.

— MITRE

APFS. A permissions issue was addressed with improved path validation.

— Apple

Credit

Cem Onat Karagun, an anonymous researcher, Zhongcheng Li (CK01), Dem0ns (@天府简易信工作室), Abdelhak Kherroubi, Jasminder Pal Singh, Lehan Dilusha Jayasingha (Sri Lanka), tamdao, Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, Richard Zana, Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin, Alexandre Borges, Ilya Andr (andrd3v), Zhongcheng Li(IES Red Team), Calif.io in collaboration with Claude, Anthropic Research, Peter Malone, Ruslan Dautov, Ye Zhang@@VAR10CK(Baidu Security), Tuan D. Hoang, Hazem Issa, Yongdae Kim @ KAIST SysSec Lab, Yongdae Kim @ SysSec, KAIST, CVE-2026-65414, Sindre Sorhus(Positive Technologies), Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Positive Technologies), Asaf Cohen, Stanislav Jelezoglo, Heiner Gerdes, Rishabh Jain (rjcyber)(cyberplanet), Pasquale Scola, Nik Tsytsarkin, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Siyeong kim, AL Najafi, Stuart Wallace, Pavan Nallamothu, ret2happy, Meta Product Security, Mustafa Calap@@ordinal0, dbg.re), stratan@@5tratan, Rahul Raj, N.M.Praveen Nawarathne@@zblockrat, James Gill @infosec.exchange)@@jjtech, Tommy DeVoss@@thedawgyg(Braze Security Team), flower xu, Adriatik Raci, PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi@@Bugeun, Daisuke Hatakeyama, Ryohei Ueki Research)@@SYZD, Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, Junyeong Lee (jylab.github.io), Merrick Hare, Aditya Kumar, John Nzyuko Uvyu, Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, Geoffrey Lovelace, Bruce Dang(Calif), Jiyong Yang, Vishal Patidar, Roman Zabicki, Luke Symons, Justin O'Leary, Mateusz Jurczyk(Google Project Zero), Varik Matevosyan, Mihalis Haatainen, Ashish Kunwar, Ari Hawking, 이재영, David Strnadel, Seiji Sakurai@@HeapSmasher, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Iru), genter0(Calif), Svetoslav Stolarov & Aisa Fox(Calif), Josh Maine(Calif), Dun, Bernhard Jackiewicz, Billy Jheng Bing Jhong(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pan Zhenpeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io), Bhaswanth Chigurupati, Tristan Madani@@TristanInSec(Talence Security), Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), R4mbb(KRsecurity), Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies), Fábio Luís@@scanpt(STAR Labs SG Pte), Richard Zana(STAR Labs SG Pte), Kitten Food, Sindre Sorhus, Morris Richman@@morrisinlife, Tristan Brennan, Myeonghun Pak, Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, Alan Banderas@@creeper4004, Matthew Zamat, Rodolphe Brunetti@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Drin Raci(sentry), Yiğit Can YILMAZ@@yilmazcanyigit, Claudio Bozzato(Cisco Talos), Francesco Benvenuto(Cisco Talos), Sindre Sorhus(IES Red Team), Hoffcona(IES Red Team), Hongsik Kim (mnur), Bálint Magyar (balintmagyar.com), Issa Sancho, CJ Vana, Gongyu Ma@@Mezone0, Dhiyanesh Selvaraj@@redroot97, Surya Narayan Kushwaha, John Lussier, Filip Olszak, Meshaal@@unrealmesh, Owen Pawling@@owenpawling, Gongyu Ma (twitter@@Mezone0, Abhay Kailasia@@abhay_kailasia(Safran Mumbai India), YingMuo@@YingMuo(DEVCORE Research Team), Abodi Dawoud, Armend Gashi, Ujjwal Reddy Kalvolu Sreenivasa Reddy, Johan Wahyudi, Lehan Dilusha Jayasingha, Jérôme Djouder, Seung Je Seong(Positive Technologies), Jakob Pammer, Constantin Clerc(Calif), Shad J(Calif), huami1314@@huamidev(Calif), Huy Nguyen@@34306(Calif), Zeyang Li&Yuxiang Wang(Chongqing Telecom), Bedran Karakoc(Ruhr University Bochum), Tobias Funke(Ruhr University Bochum), Jacopo Clark(Ruhr University Bochum), Katharina Kohls(Ruhr University Bochum), Souta Sugiyama, Viggo Lekdorf, Tomi Garcia (archyxsec), Niels Hofmans, OGINOME Tomohito, Yusuf Kelany, Jian Lee@@speedyfriend433, Stuart Wallace(Totally Not Malicious Software), Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Totally Not Malicious Software), Rosyna Keller(Totally Not Malicious Software), Daniel Febrero, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security)(Appknox), Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E)(Appknox), Prashan Samarathunge, Nick Cook, Sentry Flag, Mickey Jin@@patch1t, D4rthL, Ahmed Alwardani, Mohamad Dawoud / Abodi Dawoud, Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c, Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c(Turkish Technology), Kun Peeks@@SwayZGl1tZyyy, Oren Yomtov, Sanny Mitra(Cystack), Sihyun Roh (Compsec(Cystack), SNU)(Cystack), ngockhanh(Cystack), Ataberk Yavuzer, 정우 하@@0xfa11babe, Surej Sekhar, Suresh Sundaram, Hari Shanmugam (The Hxr1), Dawuge(Shuffle Team), Ryan Hughes, Kujtim Kryeziu (Sentry), Yongyue WANG AKA Brian.W(OKX security), Omar Cerrito, Юлия Мерцалова, Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, Joseph Shamoon, Meshaal @ Darkcov, 章鱼哥 (aipyaipy.com）@@aipy, 章鱼哥 （aipyaipy.com）@@aipy, instantraaamen (github.com/instantraaamen) Contact: masa.shiramizu.com@@gmail, Manish Bhatt, Amazon Leo Security, Yurii Bakurov, Ron Masas(BreakPoint), Feng Xue(ThreatBook), XGPT(ThreatBook), Alfredo Pesoli@@__rev(Bynar), Jonathan Bar Or@@yo_yo_yo_jbo, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security)(Talence Security), 정우 하, Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, Meta Red Team X, Geonha Lee@@leegn4a, James Young, genter0, Eddy Tsalolikhin, James Duffy@@0x4A616D657344, Abhijeet Singh (www.linkedin.com/in/abhiunix/), Stuart Thomas, Mohamed Wedatalla, Arjanit Isufi, Adrián Díaz Aguilar, HvxyZLF, Dave G., Dave G.(supernetworks), Alex Radocea(supernetworks), Dmytro Merkulov, silo, Kenneth Chew, Dora Orak, Arbuckle@@Ethan, @@leptos_null, Kieran Klukas (taciturnaxolotl), Liu Xue & 九宫格(Chongqing Telecom), Alfredo Pesoli via Bynario Atlas (bynar.io)@@__rev, Jaeho Nam(SNU CSE MMLAB), Jungbum Lee(SNU CSE MMLAB), Sangwi Kang(SNU CSE MMLAB), Hyeonguk Ko(SNU CSE MMLAB), Taekyoung Kwon(SNU CSE MMLAB), Jakob Pammer(Calif), 재영 정(Calif), 재영 정(ThreatBook), Jay Patel, 재영 정, Rodolphe BRUNETTI@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), 糖豆爸爸(@晴天组织), Robert Mindo, Meridian Miftari, Amy (amys.website), Zhongquan Li@@Guluisacat, Koh M. Nakagawa@@tsunek0h(FFRI Security Inc), an anonymous researcher(Iru), Rodolphe Brunetti@@eisw0lf(Iru), Ryan Dowd@@_rdowd(Iru), Isaiah Ryan Ehlert (isaiahehlert.com)@@icloud(Iru), Charlie Weiss, Noah Gregory (wts.dev), Tomi (tk0) Koski@@tomikoski, Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange, HE WEI（ギカク）(Calif), bubu(Calif), Omar Cerrito(Calif), Roman Zabicki(Calif), Richard Zana(Calif), Chris Bailey - Short Circuit(Calif), Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan(Calif), Surya Narayan Kushwaha(Calif), f00l@@PPPF00L, 3ndy1@@_3ndy1, Minghao Lin@@Y1nkoc, 云散花折, hxr1, Drinor Selmanaj (Sentry), Ashish Kunwar(Positive Technologies), Mikhail Lozhnikov(Positive Technologies), Bhaswanth Chigurupati(STAR Labs SG Pte), Janggoon Lee(Out of Bounds), OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, wwwlk, Henock Habte, Charles Kern, Seonwook Kim, Shubham Chaskar, lattice, Josef Korbel, Thomas Guillem, Josef Korbel (Citadelo), Hossein Lotfi@@hosselot(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), 杉山 壮太, Dung Do@@_piers2(Calif), Mohit Negi, Myungyong Lee, Kwak Kiyong@@Pwnkai23, Song Nuri, Jared Reyes, Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange(Nosebeard Labs), Manish Bhatt(Nosebeard Labs), Amazon Leo Security(Nosebeard Labs), Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon(Nosebeard Labs), Jonathan Bar Or@@yo_yo_yo_jbo(ThreatBook), Lyutoon, wdszzml, Atuin Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine, Peter Malone(ThreatBook), 이재영(Positive Technologies), Jakob Pammer(Positive Technologies), He Wei（ギカク)(Calif), 진규정 (Gyujeong Jin, @@G1uN4sh, Pan ZhenPeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte)

Affected Software

11 affected componentsFixes available
Apple iOS<27
27
Apple iPadOS<27
27
Apple macOS Golden Gate<27
27
Apple visionOS<27
27
Apple macOS Tahoe<26.7
26.7
Apple macOS Sequoia<15.8
15.8
Apple iPadOS<27.0
Apple iPhone OS<27.0
Apple macOS>=15.0<15.8
Apple macOS>=26.0<26.7
Apple visionOS<27.0

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 27
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.7
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 15.8
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 27Patch iOS 27
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 27Patch iPadOS 27
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 27Patch macOS Golden Gate 27
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 15.8Patch macOS Sequoia 15.8
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.7Patch macOS Tahoe 26.7
  9. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 27Patch visionOS 27
  10. Compensating control

    Given the issue involves improved state/data protection and authorization/authentication, limit use of affected Apple Account authentication flows (e.g., Sign In With Apple flow) to trusted apps and restrict app access in accordance with Apple Account/App Store policies until updated.

Event History

Sep 14, 2026
Data Sourced
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Affected Software
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:49 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:49 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

Parent advisories

This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.

Peer vulnerabilities

Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

1

Which systems are known to contain the fix?

The issue is fixed in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS Sequoia 15.8, and macOS Tahoe 26.7.

2

What access could a malicious app obtain?

An app may be able to use the Sign In With Apple authentication flow to access the user’s Apple Account.

3

What should organizations prioritize when triaging this issue?

Prioritize updating affected Apple devices to the listed fixed releases, especially where untrusted or broadly distributed apps can be installed and Sign In With Apple is used.

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