CVE-2026-28979: Double Free

Published Jun 29, 2026
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Updated

Accessibility. This issue was addressed through improved state management.

Other sources

Accounts Framework. This issue was addressed with improved data protection.

— Apple

AirDrop. A reachable assertion was addressed with improved input validation.

— Apple

An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.5.2, iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.7.10, iOS 26.5.2 and iPadOS 26.5.2, macOS Tahoe 26.5.2, tvOS 26.6, visionOS 26.6, watchOS 26.6. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

— MITRE

APFS. The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

— Apple

App Store. This issue was addressed with improved checks.

— Apple

Credit

Dun, Seonung Park, ALTV!ST (altvi.st/), David Strnadel, Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, Anton Pakhunov, Rodolphe BRUNETTI@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Daniel Febrero, Daniel Williams, Anonymous(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), Mathis Mansière, an anonymous researcher, Rahul Raj, James Duffy@@0x4A616D657344, 이재영, Rajdip Dey Sarkar, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), CVE-2026-3784, CVE-2026-3783, HvxyZLF, Huỳnh Tấn Ngàn, Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Positive Technologies), Stanislav Jelezoglo, Redon Gashi, Michael DePlante@@izobashi(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), Arni Hardarson, Jonathan Alush-Aben, Peter Malone, 진규정 (Gyujeong Jin, @@G1uN4sh, PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi@@Bugeun, Geonha Lee@@leegn4a, Lyutoon, f0r(MurphySec), Feng Xue(ThreatBook), XGPT(ThreatBook), Mahmoud Abdelmoniem, Wang Yu, Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.), DARKNAVY@@DarkNavyOrg, Fábio Luís@@scanpt, Nicolas Rabrenovic, Pasquale Scola(STAR Labs SG Pte), Billy Jheng Bing Jhong(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pan Zhenpeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Gor Aleksanyan, impost0r (ret2plt)(Appknox), Ruslan Dautov(Appknox), Aleksandr Tarasikov(Appknox), jay(Appknox), Dhiyanesh Selvaraj@@redroot97(Appknox), Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E)(Appknox), Lyutoon(STAR Labs SG Pte), DongJun Kim (smlijun) with UIUC(STAR Labs SG Pte), Hwiwon Lee (hwiwonl) with UIUC(STAR Labs SG Pte), Jongseong Kim (nevul37) with UIUC(STAR Labs SG Pte), Younggi Park (grill66) with UIUC(STAR Labs SG Pte), Peter Malone(STAR Labs SG Pte), an anonymous researcher(STAR Labs SG Pte), Hari Shanmugam (The Hxr1)(STAR Labs SG Pte), Marco Grassi, Daniele Castronovo, Michal Kosiorek, Josh Maine(Calif), Ruslan Dautov(Baidu Security), 재영 정(Baidu Security), (Rao Ali Nawaz)@@rootxran(Baidu Security), Chanwit Muenprakoddee (ChemIndy)(Baidu Security), an anonymous researcher(Baidu Security), Ye Zhang@@VAR10CK(Baidu Security), Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence(Calif), Christian Figueroa(Calif), Johnny Franks@@zeroxjf(Calif), Ashmit Sharma & Atul RV(Calif), Peter Malone(Calif), Muhamad Syaiful(Calif), Muneeb Amin Bhat(Calif), Dhiyanesh Selvaraj@@redroot97(Calif), Ali Marzouq(Calif), Bountyy Oy - Mihalis Haatainen(Calif), Huy Nguyen@@34306(Calif), Eddy Tsalolikhin, beist(ASU SEFCOM), Adam Doupé(ASU SEFCOM), Dun(STAR Labs SG Pte), Johnny Franks@@zeroxjf, Somair Ansar(Calif), Asjid Kalam@@odinshell, Abhijeet Singh (linkedin.com/in/abhiunix/), Omar Cerrito, impost0r (ret2plt), Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io), Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies)(Baidu Security), Jian Zhou, Ye Zhang, N.M.Praveen Nawarathne@@zblockrat, Lukas Gerlach, Tristan Madani@@TristanInSec(Talence Security), Daisuke Hatakeyama Research)@@SYZD, Richard Zana(Nosebeard Labs), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), 彦辰, stratan@@5tratan, dr3dd, Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, Gurpreet Shergill, Merrick Hare, Drinor Selmanaj (Sentry), Khai Tran, John Lussier, Rhyru9, Kwak Kiyong, Song Nuri, stratan@@5tratan(Almamater Technologies), Josef Korbel (Citadelo)(Talence Security), Gia Bui@@yabeow(Calif), Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, CVE-2026-43709, Юлия Мерцалова, Tommy DeVoss@@thedawgyg(Braze Security Team), Kagami Rosylight(Mozilla), Nan Wang@@eternalsakura13, Brian Carpenter, Milad Nasr, Nicholas Carlini with Claude, Anthropic, 杉山 壮太(Z), lattice(Z), Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari@@_G4ru_(Z), Junyeong Lee(Z), Mooth.ai(Z), OGINOME Tomohito(Z), Using GLM(Z), Luke Francis, 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), Utkarsh Pal, Ignacio Sanmillan@@ulexec, Kwak Kiyong(Talence Security), Song nuri(Talence Security), Mateusz Krzywicki (iVerify.io)(Braze Security Team), dr3dd(Braze Security Team), Jody Ritonga, Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari@@_G4ru_, OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, Vitaly Simonovich, Christian Meurer Xavier, Josef Korbel, OGINOME Tomohito, Idan Masas, CVE-2026-28979, Shaheen Fazim, Rosyna Keller(Totally Not Malicious Software), YingQi Shi@@Mas0nShi(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Ashish Kunwar, hxr1, CVE-2026-4424, wh0am1i, Francisco Knabe, Josef Korbel (Citadelo), Tristan Madani, Soyeon Park, Amy Burnett, Heiko Kiesel(SEEMOO), TU Darmstadt, Manuel Fernandez (Stackhopper Security), Tien-Chih Lin(CyCraft Technology), Song Nuri(Talence Security), Maher Azzouzi(Calif), Tuan(Calif), Duc(Calif), Evan Lambert, Jorge Welch@@jorgwelch, Arash Ale Ebrahim(SCy), Irvin Wang, Rodolphe Brunetti@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), ret2happy, Stanislav Jelezoglo(Positive Technologies), Jiri Ha, Gandalf4a(PKU), 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), Ashish Kunwar(MurphySec), Mahmoud Abdelmoniem(ThreatBook), Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel(ThreatBook), Wang Yu(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ernesto Martínez García, Calif Research, Ji'an Zhou, Mingxuan Yang, Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies)(STAR Labs SG Pte), Robert Mindo, Alex Radocea, Do Young Park, wwwlk, Artem Dinaburg(Trail of Bits via Anthropic CVD), Cantina, Gurpreet Shergill(Calif), Janggoon Lee(Out of Bounds), Mateusz Krzywicki (iVerify.io), Josef Korbel (Citadelo)(Cisco Talos), Claudio Bozzato(Cisco Talos), Francesco Benvenuto(Cisco Talos), Thomas Guillem, 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), Dung Do@@_piers2(Calif), Muhamad Syaiful, Josef Korbel(Calif), Mohit Negi, Stuart Wallace

Affected Software

13 affected componentsFixes available
Apple WatchOS<26.6
26.6
Apple visionOS<26.6
26.6
Apple tvOS<26.6
26.6
Apple Safari<26.5.2
26.5.2
Apple Safari<26.5.2
Apple iPadOS<26.5.2
Apple iPhone OS<26.5.2
Apple macOS<26.5.2
Apple macOS Tahoe<26.5.2
26.5.2
Apple iOS<26.5.2
26.5.2
Apple iPadOS<26.5.2
26.5.2
Apple iOS<18.7.10
18.7.10
Apple iPadOS<18.7.10
18.7.10

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 26.6
  2. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 26.5.2
  3. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 18.7.10
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade Safari to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5.2
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade iOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 18.7.10
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade iPadOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 18.7.10
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade iOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5.2
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade iPadOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5.2
  9. Upgrade

    Upgrade macOS Tahoe to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5.2
  10. Upgrade

    Upgrade tvOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.6
  11. Upgrade

    Upgrade visionOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.6
  12. Upgrade

    Upgrade watchOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.6
  13. Compensating control

    Use HTTPS when sending information over the network.

Event History

Jun 29, 2026
Data Sourced
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Description
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Affected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionAffected Software
CVE Published
via MITRE·07:42 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·07:42 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·08:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Jul 27, 2026
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Affected Software
Aug 17, 2026
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Affected Software

Parent advisories

This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.

Peer vulnerabilities

Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the severity of CVE-2026-28979?

CVE-2026-28979 has a medium severity score of 6.5.

2

How do I fix CVE-2026-28979?

To fix CVE-2026-28979, update to Safari 26.5.2, iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2, or macOS Tahoe 26.5.2.

3

What type of issue is CVE-2026-28979?

CVE-2026-28979 is an out-of-bounds access issue that can lead to an unexpected process crash.

4

What software is affected by CVE-2026-28979?

CVE-2026-28979 affects Apple Safari, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Tahoe.

5

What security feature was improved in relation to CVE-2026-28979?

CVE-2026-28979 was addressed with improved bounds checking to mitigate the vulnerability.

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