CVE-2026-28960: Input Validation
Published Aug 17, 2026
·Updated
A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.7.10. A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service.
Other sources
Accessibility. This issue was addressed through improved state management.
— Apple
Accounts. An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
— Apple
AirDrop. A reachable assertion was addressed with improved input validation.
— Apple
APFS. The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
— Apple
App Store. This issue was addressed with improved checks.
— Apple
Credit
Arash Ale Ebrahim(SCy), Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, Peter Malone, Rahul Raj, Peter Malone(cyberplanet), Nicolas Rabrenovic(cyberplanet), Irvin Wang(cyberplanet), Rishabh Jain (rjcyber)(cyberplanet), Seonung Park, ALTV!ST (altvi.st/), Xint Code, Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, Dun, YingQi Shi@@Mas0nShi(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Rodolphe Brunetti@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Daniel Febrero, Daniel Williams, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), Anonymous(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), ret2happy, Mathis Mansière, an anonymous researcher, James Duffy@@0x4A616D657344, stratan@@5tratan, CVE-2026-3784, CVE-2026-3783, Huỳnh Tấn Ngàn, Manuel Fernandez (Stackhopper Security), Stanislav Jelezoglo(Positive Technologies), Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Positive Technologies), Redon Gashi, Jonathan Alush-Aben, Arni Hardarson, Jiri Ha, Gandalf4a(PKU), Anton Pakhunov, Geonha Lee@@leegn4a, Richard Zana, Dhiyanesh Selvaraj@@redroot97, Seiji Sakurai@@HeapSmasher, hxr1(STAR Labs SG Pte), Hiroki Imai (LAC Co.(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ltd.)(STAR Labs SG Pte), Billy Jheng Bing Jhong(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pan Zhenpeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ashish Kunwar, Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io), Ashish Kunwar(MurphySec), f0r(MurphySec), Mahmoud Abdelmoniem(ThreatBook), Feng Xue(ThreatBook), XGPT(ThreatBook), Wang Yu, Nicolas Rabrenovic, Lyutoon, Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.), Fábio Luís@@scanpt, DARKNAVY@@DarkNavyOrg, Gor Aleksanyan, Michal Kosiorek, Eddy Tsalolikhin, Asjid Kalam@@odinshell, impost0r (ret2plt), Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel(ThreatBook), Lukas Gerlach, 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), CVE-2026-4424, Robert Mindo, Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, Daisuke Hatakeyama Research)@@SYZD, Richard Zana(Nosebeard Labs), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), Steven Zhao (zhao.io), Tristan Madani@@TristanInSec(Talence Security), Michael DePlante@@izobashi(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), wh0am1i, Francisco Knabe, Nik Tsytsarkin, Stanislav Jelezoglo, Alex Radocea, Do Young Park, OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, wwwlk, Artem Dinaburg(Trail of Bits via Anthropic CVD), Cantina, dr3dd, Tommy DeVoss@@thedawgyg(Braze Security Team), Gurpreet Shergill(Calif), Gia Bui@@yabeow(Calif), Rhyru9, Merrick Hare, Kwak Kiyong, Song Nuri, Khai Tran, John Lussier, Gurpreet Shergill, Drinor Selmanaj (Sentry), Utkarsh Pal, Ignacio Sanmillan@@ulexec, Using GLM(Z), stratan@@5tratan(Almamater Technologies), Soyeon Park(DEVCORE Research Team), Amy Burnett(DEVCORE Research Team), Khai Tran(DEVCORE Research Team), sherkito(DEVCORE Research Team), Kota Toda(DEVCORE Research Team), HexRabbit@@h3xr4bb1t(DEVCORE Research Team), NiNi@@terrynini38514(DEVCORE Research Team), Brian Carpenter, Milad Nasr, Nicholas Carlini with Claude, Anthropic, Janggoon Lee(Out of Bounds), Mateusz Krzywicki (iVerify.io), Kun Peeks@@SwayZGl1tZyyy, Josef Korbel, Josef Korbel (Citadelo)(Cisco Talos), Claudio Bozzato(Cisco Talos), Francesco Benvenuto(Cisco Talos), Niels Hofmans, Thomas Guillem, Charles Kern, Shubham Chaskar, Seonwook Kim, lattice, Henock Habte, Hossein Lotfi@@hosselot(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), Utkarsh Pal(Talence Security), Narendra Singh@@_3P1C(Calif), Josef Korbel (Citadelo)(Calif), Юлия Мерцалова, Dung Do@@_piers2(Calif), Luke Francis, Muhamad Syaiful, Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari@@_G4ru_, Vitaly Simonovich, Christian Meurer Xavier, Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, 杉山 壮太, Josef Korbel(Calif), Mohit Negi, Nan Wang@@eternalsakura13, CVE-2026-28979, Shaheen Fazim, Stuart Wallace, 이재영(Appknox), Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E)(Appknox), Jorge Welch@@jorgwelch
Affected Software
6 affected componentsFixes available
Apple iOS=18.7.10
Apple iPadOS=18.7.10
Apple iOS<18.7.10
18.7.10
Apple iPadOS<18.7.10
18.7.10
Apple iPadOS<18.7.10
Apple iPhone OS<18.7.10
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 18.7.10
Event History
Aug 17, 2026
Data Sourced
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Sep 14, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:52 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:52 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Peer vulnerabilities
Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.
- CVE-2026-64732
- CVE-2026-65404
- CVE-2026-43667
- CVE-2026-64695
- CVE-2026-43801
- CVE-2026-43776
- CVE-2026-64725
- CVE-2026-65355
- CVE-2026-64747
- CVE-2026-64762
- CVE-2026-64707
- CVE-2026-43811
- CVE-2026-64746
- CVE-2026-64734
- CVE-2026-43797
- CVE-2026-43673
- CVE-2026-43744
- CVE-2026-43803
- CVE-2026-43711
- CVE-2026-43738
- CVE-2026-84489
- CVE-2026-43802
- CVE-2026-3784
- CVE-2026-3783
- CVE-2026-43714
- CVE-2026-64742
- CVE-2026-64740
- CVE-2026-43796
- CVE-2026-64692
- CVE-2026-64716
- CVE-2026-28990
- CVE-2026-43661
- CVE-2026-43818
- CVE-2026-64693
- CVE-2026-64714
- CVE-2026-39877
- CVE-2026-64760
- CVE-2026-64749
- CVE-2026-64744
- CVE-2026-43778
- CVE-2026-64735
- CVE-2026-43822
- CVE-2026-43799
- CVE-2026-64700
- CVE-2026-43724
- CVE-2026-43769
- CVE-2026-43722
- CVE-2026-64721
- CVE-2026-43809
- CVE-2026-43757
- CVE-2026-43754
- CVE-2026-64723
- CVE-2026-39868
- CVE-2026-43810
- CVE-2026-64709
- CVE-2026-64717
- CVE-2026-4424
- CVE-2026-28973
- CVE-2026-64739
- CVE-2026-64743
- CVE-2026-64738
- CVE-2026-64724
- CVE-2026-43723
- CVE-2026-28960
- CVE-2026-43807
- CVE-2026-43733
- CVE-2026-43729
- CVE-2026-64772
- CVE-2026-64774
- CVE-2026-64770
- CVE-2026-64769
- CVE-2026-64722
- CVE-2026-64768
- CVE-2026-64771
- CVE-2026-43812
- CVE-2026-64764
- CVE-2026-64763
- CVE-2026-64766
- CVE-2026-64765
- CVE-2026-43800
- CVE-2026-28996
- CVE-2026-43658
- CVE-2026-65338
- CVE-2026-43795
- CVE-2026-28984
- CVE-2026-28958
- CVE-2026-28947
- CVE-2026-43727
- CVE-2026-43735
- CVE-2026-39872
- CVE-2026-43663
- CVE-2026-65334
- CVE-2026-64757
- CVE-2026-64784
- CVE-2026-43676
- CVE-2026-65331
- CVE-2026-65335
- CVE-2026-65332
- CVE-2026-65333
- CVE-2026-65337
- CVE-2026-65336
- CVE-2026-65340
- CVE-2026-65351
- CVE-2026-64781
- CVE-2026-64782
- CVE-2026-65341
- CVE-2026-64715
- CVE-2026-43734
- CVE-2026-43726
- CVE-2026-43699
- CVE-2026-43742
- CVE-2026-64780
- CVE-2026-43794
- CVE-2026-43725
- CVE-2026-43731
- CVE-2026-43705
- CVE-2026-43708
- CVE-2026-43700
- CVE-2026-43701
- CVE-2026-43745
- CVE-2026-64787
- CVE-2026-43720
- CVE-2026-64778
- CVE-2026-43821
- CVE-2026-64779
- CVE-2026-43717
- CVE-2026-43746
- CVE-2026-28979
- CVE-2026-64719
- CVE-2026-64726
- CVE-2026-64755
Frequently Asked Questions
1
Which systems need the update?
Systems running iOS or iPadOS should be updated to version 18.7.10, which contains the fix for this denial-of-service issue.
2
Does exploiting this issue require local access?
No. The available information states that a remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service.
3
What can be done if the update cannot be installed immediately?
The provided information does not identify a workaround or mitigation other than installing iOS 18.7.10 or iPadOS 18.7.10.