CVE-2026-28984: Input Validation

Published May 11, 2026
·
Updated

Accelerate. An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

Other sources

Accessibility. This issue was addressed through improved state management.

— Apple

Accounts. A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

— Apple

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

— Apple

APFS. A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

— Apple

APFS. The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

— Apple

Credit

Jorge Welch@@jorgwelch, Arash Ale Ebrahim(SCy), Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, Peter Malone, Rahul Raj, Nicolas Rabrenovic, Irvin Wang, Seonung Park, ALTV!ST (altvi.st/), 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, 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, 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), Tristan Madani@@TristanInSec(Talence Security), Michael DePlante@@izobashi(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), wh0am1i, stratan@@5tratan, Francisco Knabe, 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), Josef Korbel, 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), Юлия Мерцалова, Dung Do@@_piers2(Calif), Luke Francis, Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari@@_G4ru_, Vitaly Simonovich, Muhamad Syaiful, Christian Meurer Xavier, Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, Josef Korbel(Calif), Mohit Negi, Nan Wang@@eternalsakura13, CVE-2026-28979, Shaheen Fazim, Stuart Wallace, Vaagn Vardanian, kwak kiyong / kakaogames, Adel Bouachraoui, greenbynox, Yuhao Hu, Yuanming Lai, Chenggang Wu, Zhe Wang, Idan Masas(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), DARKNAVY@@DarkNavyOrg(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), Daniel Rhea, Luka Rački, wac(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), Kookhwan Lee(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), Maher Azzouzi, Aisle offensive security research team (Joshua Rogers(Calif), Luigino Camastra(Calif), Igor Morgenstern(Calif), (Calif), Guido Vranken)(Calif), Maher Azzouzi(Calif), Ngan Nguyen(Calif), w0wbox, Khiem Tran, lebr0nli(National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Security, Systems Lab, Kenneth Hsu(Palo Alto Networks), Jérôme DJOUDER, Dave G., Vamshi Paili, Tony Gorez for Reverse Society@@tonygo_, CVE-2026-1837, Nicholas Soh, David Ige(Beryllium Security), Alan Wang, Ailsa Sun, Christopher W. Fletcher, Hovav Shacham, David Kohlbrenner, Riccardo Paccagnella, Niels Hofmans(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), Suresh Sundaram, Johnny Franks@@0xjohnny, Google Threat Analysis Group, Mihalis Haatainen, Ari Hawking, Somair Ansar, popku1337(STAR Labs SG Pte), Robert Tran, Aswin kumar Gokulakannan, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Iru), Chris Betz(Talence Security), Ruslan Dautov, Zhongcheng Li (CK01), Atul R V, Omar Cerrito, Ricardo Prado, Ian van der Wurff (ian.nl), Asaf Cohen, Ilya Sc. Jowell A., Jorge Welch, Doron Assness, Andy Koo@@andykoo(Hexens), Adriatik Raci, Abhay Kailasia@@abhay_kailasia(Safran Mumbai India), Brendon Tiszka(Google Project Zero), CVE-2025-14017, CVE-2025-14819, Kun Peeks@@SwayZGl1tZyyy, Aswin Kumar Gokula Kannan, wdszzml, Atuin Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine, beist, Yiğit Can YILMAZ@@yilmazcanyigit, Calif.io in collaboration with Claude, Anthropic Research, Prathamesh Walunj@@attahasa, Dan Raviv, Surya Kushwaha(Supernetworks), Robert Tran(Supernetworks), Peter Malone(Supernetworks), Dave G.(Supernetworks), Alex Radocea(Supernetworks), Pan ZhenPeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Amy (amys.website), David Ige - Beryllium Security

Affected Software

11 affected componentsFixes available
Apple iPadOS<18.7.10
Apple iPhone OS<18.7.10
Apple iOS<18.7.10
18.7.10
Apple iPadOS<18.7.10
18.7.10
Apple Safari<26.5
26.5
Apple iOS<26.5
26.5
Apple iPadOS<26.5
26.5
Apple macOS Tahoe<26.5
26.5
Apple tvOS<26.5
26.5
Apple WatchOS<26.5
26.5
Apple visionOS<26.5
26.5

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 18.7.10
  2. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 26.5
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Safari to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade iOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 18.7.10
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade iPadOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 18.7.10
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade iOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade iPadOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade macOS Tahoe to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5
  9. Upgrade

    Upgrade tvOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5
  10. Upgrade

    Upgrade visionOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5
  11. Upgrade

    Upgrade watchOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.5

Event History

May 11, 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
May 13, 2026
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Aug 17, 2026
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Affected Software
CVE Published
via MITRE·09:30 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·09:30 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·10:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

Parent advisories

This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.

Peer vulnerabilities

Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

1

Which Apple platforms are identified as affected?

The affected software listed for this record is Apple iOS and Apple iPadOS. No affected version ranges or fixed version numbers are provided.

2

What types of components and weakness classes are involved?

The advisory describes multiple issue classes, including buffer overflows, out-of-bounds reads and writes, memory corruption, race conditions, authorization and permissions issues, and input-validation weaknesses. Named components include AirDrop, APFS, AppleDouble, Audio, AVEVideoEncoder, BackgroundAssets, Books, Contacts, CoreAudio, CoreMedia, and CoreUI.

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