CVE-2026-28836: Buffer Overflow
Published Jul 27, 2026
·Updated
A correctness issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.8.8. An attacker with physical access may be able to silently persist an Apple Account on an erased device.
Other sources
Accounts. A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation.
— Apple
Accounts. An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
— Apple
afpfs. A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.
— Apple
apache. 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.
— Apple
APFS. The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
— Apple
Credit
Adam Franke(CyStack), Trung Nguyen@@everping(CyStack), Ashish Kunwar, 이재영(Appknox), Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E)(Appknox), Stuart Wallace, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), Dave G., Bartlomiej Dmitruk(striga), Stanislaw Strzalkowski(isec), Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, Peter Malone, Rahul Raj, Pinak Oza, Robert Mindo, impost0r (ret2plt), David Ige - Beryllium Security, lokerxx(Economics), Narendra Singh@@_3P1C(Economics), Lyutoon(Economics), Jordy Zomer@@pwningsystems(Economics), Richard Zana(Economics), George Stergiopoulos(Economics), InfoSec lab(Economics), Athens University(Economics), Business, Greece, Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, 이재영, Pavan Nallamothu, Jared Reyes, John Lussier, Seonung Park, ALTV!ST (altvi.st/), Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, Dun, YingQi Shi@@Mas0nShi(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), Richard Zana, Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, an anonymous researcher, Daniel Williams, Gergely Kalman@@gergely_kalman, Anonymous(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), ret2happy, Mathis Mansière, James Duffy@@0x4A616D657344, stratan@@5tratan, Matthew Schneider, XBreach.ai(Nosebeard Labs), Dallas Dubs(Nosebeard Labs), Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, CVE-2026-3784, CVE-2026-3783, CVE-2025-14017, CVE-2025-14819, HvxyZLF, Lance Cain - Offensive Security Engineer, SpecterOps Inc., Jonathan Bar Or@@yo_yo_yo_jbo, Anthony Laou Hine Tsuei@@anarcheuz, Gil Portnoy & Henry, Ayaan Ahmad, Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, erdene-och Byambabayar, Niels Hofmans, Pyrophoria, Estifanos Megersa, Ahmed Uddin, Manuel Fernandez (Stackhopper Security), Stanislav Jelezoglo(Positive Technologies), Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Positive Technologies), Redon Gashi, Nicolas Rabrenovic, Atul R V & Ashmit Sharma, Hcamael, 章鱼哥 （aipyaipy.com）@@aipy, Surya Narayan Kushwaha, Cem Onat Karagun, Alfredo Pesoli@@__rev(Bynar), Tristan Madani@@TristanInSec(Talence Security), Jonathan Alush-Aben, Arni Hardarson, Michael DePlante@@izobashi(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), Gandalf4a(PKU), Anton Pakhunov, PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi@@Bugeun, Geonha Lee@@leegn4a, Dhiyanesh Selvaraj@@redroot97, Igor Ushakov, Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io), Billy Jheng Bing Jhong(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pan Zhenpeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Adam Doupé(ASU SEFCOM), Ashish Kunwar(MurphySec), f0r(MurphySec), Mahmoud Abdelmoniem(ThreatBook), Feng Xue(ThreatBook), XGPT(ThreatBook), Wang Yu, Lyutoon, Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.), Fábio Luís@@scanpt, DARKNAVY@@DarkNavyOrg, Gor Aleksanyan, Michal Kosiorek, Eddy Tsalolikhin, Asjid Kalam@@odinshell, Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel(ThreatBook), Wang Yu(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ernesto Martínez García, Calif Research, Ji'an Zhou, Mingxuan Yang, Ye Zhang, Ye Zhang@@VAR10CK(Baidu Security), Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies)(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pasquale Scola(STAR Labs SG Pte), Lukas Gerlach, Kirin@@Pwnrin(Fudan University), LFY@@secsys(Fudan University), Ruslan Dautov, CVE-2026-4424, Prathamesh Walunj@@attahasa, Amy (amys.website), Daisuke Hatakeyama Research)@@SYZD, Richard Zana(Nosebeard Labs), yk lin@@pixiepointsec, Robert Tran, Mickey Jin@@patch1t, Dan Raviv, Koh M. Nakagawa@@tsunek0h(FFRI Security Inc), silo, 九宫格(Chongqing Telecom), Chanwit Muenprakoddee (ChemIndy), Aethel-Systems, Zachary Neal(Stripe), Hcamael(Stripe), 章鱼哥 (aipyaipy.com)@@aipy(Stripe), JC Alvarado(Stripe), Jacob Hazak, @@pixiepointsec, Nik Tsytsarkin, Asaf Cohen, Junming C.(Chapoly1305), wdszzml(Bynar), Atuin Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine(Bynar), He Wei (ギカク)(Cisco Talos), Claudio Bozzato(Cisco Talos), Francesco Benvenuto(Cisco Talos), Kitten Food, Calif.io in collaboration with Claude, Anthropic Research, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Iru), Tien-Chih Lin(CyCraft Technology), Bruce Dang(Calif)
Affected Software
2 affected componentsFixes available
Apple macOS Sonoma<14.8.8
14.8.8
Apple macOS<14.8.8
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Upgrade
Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.
Fixed in 14.8.8
Event History
Jul 27, 2026
Data Sourced
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Description
Sep 14, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:48 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:48 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Peer vulnerabilities
Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.
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- CVE-2026-65404
- CVE-2026-64767
- CVE-2026-43815
- CVE-2026-23918
- CVE-2026-64695
- CVE-2026-43801
- CVE-2026-43781
- CVE-2026-64737
- CVE-2026-43681
- CVE-2026-43761
- CVE-2026-43672
- CVE-2026-43763
- CVE-2026-64702
- CVE-2026-64725
- CVE-2026-64747
- CVE-2026-64762
- CVE-2026-64707
- CVE-2026-28849
- CVE-2026-64698
- CVE-2026-64734
- CVE-2026-43756
- CVE-2026-43693
- CVE-2026-43673
- CVE-2026-43744
- CVE-2026-43803
- CVE-2026-43711
- CVE-2026-28936
- CVE-2026-43738
- CVE-2026-84489
- CVE-2026-43802
- CVE-2026-64710
- CVE-2026-39875
- CVE-2026-43698
- CVE-2026-3784
- CVE-2026-3783
- CVE-2025-14017
- CVE-2025-14819
- CVE-2026-43758
- CVE-2026-64708
- CVE-2026-28926
- CVE-2026-43747
- CVE-2026-64694
- CVE-2026-28945
- CVE-2026-64776
- CVE-2026-43793
- CVE-2026-43753
- CVE-2026-28836
- CVE-2026-43714
- CVE-2026-64740
- CVE-2026-43796
- CVE-2026-64692
- CVE-2026-43682
- CVE-2026-28981
- CVE-2026-43773
- CVE-2026-43767
- CVE-2026-64697
- CVE-2026-43764
- CVE-2026-43710
- CVE-2025-43325
- CVE-2026-64716
- CVE-2026-43780
- CVE-2026-43818
- CVE-2026-43661
- CVE-2026-64754
- CVE-2026-64693
- CVE-2026-64714
- CVE-2026-43805
- CVE-2026-39877
- CVE-2026-43782
- CVE-2026-64744
- CVE-2026-64775
- CVE-2026-28982
- CVE-2026-43778
- CVE-2026-64735
- CVE-2026-43822
- CVE-2026-64700
- CVE-2026-43799
- CVE-2026-43810
- CVE-2026-43724
- CVE-2026-43722
- CVE-2026-43809
- CVE-2026-43757
- CVE-2026-43769
- CVE-2026-43754
- CVE-2026-64723
- CVE-2026-39868
- CVE-2026-64709
- CVE-2026-64721
- CVE-2026-20672
- CVE-2026-28983
- CVE-2026-4424
- CVE-2026-28900
- CVE-2026-28973
- CVE-2026-64739
- CVE-2026-43703
- CVE-2026-43706
- CVE-2026-43766
- CVE-2026-64738
- CVE-2026-64724
- CVE-2026-43723
- CVE-2026-28911
- CVE-2026-43807
- CVE-2026-64774
- CVE-2026-64770
- CVE-2026-64769
- CVE-2026-64768
- CVE-2026-43771
- CVE-2026-43772
- CVE-2026-28961
- CVE-2026-64711
- CVE-2026-86902
- CVE-2026-43765
- CVE-2026-28896
- CVE-2026-28933
- CVE-2026-43694
- CVE-2026-39874
- CVE-2026-64764
- CVE-2026-64763
- CVE-2026-64766
- CVE-2026-64765
- CVE-2026-43779
- CVE-2026-43777
- CVE-2026-43665
- CVE-2026-43760
- CVE-2026-43755
- CVE-2026-39873
- CVE-2026-64696
- CVE-2026-64704
- CVE-2026-43774
- CVE-2026-43770
- CVE-2026-43768
- CVE-2026-64703
- CVE-2026-64699
- CVE-2026-43750
- CVE-2026-28932
- CVE-2026-28914
Frequently Asked Questions
1
Who is exposed to this issue?
Devices that have been erased and are accessible to an attacker with physical access may be exposed. The issue could allow the attacker to silently persist an Apple Account on the erased device.
2
What does an attacker need to exploit it?
The attacker needs physical access to the device. No remote attack path is described in the available information.
3
Which update fixes the issue?
Apple states that the issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.8.8.