CVE-2026-39872: 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

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

Vitaly Simonovich, Christian Meurer Xavier, Gurpreet Shergill, Merrick Hare, Drinor Selmanaj (Sentry), Khai Tran, John Lussier, Rhyru9, Kwak Kiyong, Song Nuri, Jonathan Alush-Aben, stratan@@5tratan(Almamater Technologies), Josef Korbel (Citadelo)(Talence Security), Tristan Madani@@TristanInSec(Talence Security), Gia Bui@@yabeow(Calif), Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, CVE-2026-43709, Tommy DeVoss@@thedawgyg(Braze Security Team), Юлия Мерцалова, Nan Wang@@eternalsakura13, dr3dd, Milad Nasr, Nicholas Carlini with Claude, Anthropic, 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), Using GLM(Z), Brian Carpenter, Utkarsh Pal, Ignacio Sanmillan@@ulexec, Kwak Kiyong(Talence Security), Song Nuri(Talence Security), Maher Azzouzi(Calif), Tuan(Calif), Duc(Calif), OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, Evan Lambert, Mateusz Krzywicki (iVerify.io)(Braze Security Team), dr3dd(Braze Security Team), Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, Arni Hardarson, Jody Ritonga, Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari@@_G4ru_, Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, Josef Korbel, Idan Masas, CVE-2026-28979, impost0r (ret2plt), Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, Feng Xue(ThreatBook), XGPT(ThreatBook), Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies)(Baidu Security), Ye Zhang@@VAR10CK(Baidu Security), Billy Jheng Bing Jhong(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pan Zhenpeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Lyutoon, Dun, Arash Ale Ebrahim(SCy), 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, 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, 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), Ashish Kunwar, Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io), Ashish Kunwar(MurphySec), f0r(MurphySec), Mahmoud Abdelmoniem(ThreatBook), Wang Yu, Nicolas Rabrenovic, Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.), Fábio Luís@@scanpt, DARKNAVY@@DarkNavyOrg, Gor Aleksanyan, Michal Kosiorek, Eddy Tsalolikhin, Asjid Kalam@@odinshell, Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel(ThreatBook), Lukas Gerlach, Wang Yu(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ernesto Martínez García, Calif Research, Ji'an Zhou, Mingxuan Yang, Ye Zhang, Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies)(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pasquale Scola(STAR Labs SG Pte), CVE-2026-4424, Robert Mindo, Daisuke Hatakeyama Research)@@SYZD, Richard Zana(Nosebeard Labs), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), Steven Zhao (zhao.io), Michael DePlante@@izobashi(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), wh0am1i, Francisco Knabe, Nik Tsytsarkin, Stanislav Jelezoglo, 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), Kun Peeks@@SwayZGl1tZyyy, 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), Dung Do@@_piers2(Calif), Muhamad Syaiful, 杉山 壮太, Josef Korbel(Calif), Mohit Negi, Shaheen Fazim, Stuart Wallace, 이재영(Appknox), Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E)(Appknox), Jorge Welch@@jorgwelch, Rosyna Keller(Totally Not Malicious Software), David Strnadel, Rodolphe BRUNETTI@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), 이재영, Rajdip Dey Sarkar, HvxyZLF, 진규정 (Gyujeong Jin, @@G1uN4sh, PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi@@Bugeun, Mahmoud Abdelmoniem, impost0r (ret2plt)(Appknox), Ruslan Dautov(Appknox), Aleksandr Tarasikov(Appknox), jay(Appknox), Dhiyanesh Selvaraj@@redroot97(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, 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), Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence(Calif), Christian Figueroa(Calif), Johnny Franks@@0xjohnny(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), beist(ASU SEFCOM), Adam Doupé(ASU SEFCOM), Dun(STAR Labs SG Pte), Johnny Franks@@0xjohnny, Somair Ansar(Calif), Abhijeet Singh (linkedin.com/in/abhiunix/), Omar Cerrito, Jian Zhou, N.M.Praveen Nawarathne@@zblockrat, YingMuo@@YingMuo(DEVCORE Research Team), Tristan Rousseau, Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies), Dun(DARKNAVY), deepsec@@DarkNavyOrg(DARKNAVY), 彦辰, Utkarsh Pal(Almamater Technologies), Kagami Rosylight(Mozilla), Luke Francis(Z), Francisco Alonso@@revskills(Z), Shubham Chaskar(Z), Jiyong Yang@@Sy2n0(Z), 杉山 壮太(Z), lattice(Z), Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari@@_G4ru_(Z), Junyeong Lee(Z), Mooth.ai(Z), OGINOME Tomohito(Z), Song nuri(Talence Security), OGINOME Tomohito, Tien-Chih Lin(CyCraft Technology), hxr1, RedRays Security Team, Soyeon Park, Amy Burnett, Heiko Kiesel(SEEMOO), TU Darmstadt

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 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
Apple Safari<26.5.2
Apple iPadOS<26.5.2
Apple iPhone OS<26.5.2
Apple macOS<26.5.2

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 26.5.2
  2. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 18.7.10
  3. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 26.6
  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·07:43 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·07:43 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·08:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Jul 14, 2026
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·07:06 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
Jul 27, 2026
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionAffected Software
Aug 17, 2026
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected 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-2026-39872?

CVE-2026-39872 has a medium severity rating of 6.5 according to CVSS.

2

What types of vulnerabilities are associated with CVE-2026-39872?

CVE-2026-39872 includes issues related to double free, use after free, input validation, race condition, and buffer overflow.

3

How do I fix CVE-2026-39872?

To fix CVE-2026-39872, ensure that you update your Apple devices to the latest software release that addresses this vulnerability.

4

Which systems are affected by CVE-2026-39872?

CVE-2026-39872 affects Apple iPadOS, Apple iOS, Apple macOS Tahoe, Apple Safari, and Apple iPhone OS.

5

What improvements were made to address CVE-2026-39872?

Improvements related to CVE-2026-39872 included enhanced state handling, input sanitization, input validation, and memory management.

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