CVE-2026-43762: Use After Free

Published Jul 27, 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. A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation.

— Apple

Accounts. An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions.

— 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

Credit

Jorge Welch@@jorgwelch, Rosyna Keller(Totally Not Malicious Software), Rahul Raj, 章鱼哥.com@@aipyaipy, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, N.M.Praveen Nawarathne@@zblockrat, Stuart Wallace, Dun, Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies), an anonymous researcher, tamdao, Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, Irvin Wang(cyberplanet), Peter Malone(cyberplanet), Nicolas Rabrenovic(cyberplanet), Rishabh Jain (rjcyber)(cyberplanet), Seonung Park, ALTV!ST (altvi.st/), David Strnadel, YingQi Shi@@Mas0nShi(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Rodolphe Brunetti@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Anton Pakhunov, Rodolphe BRUNETTI@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Daniel Febrero, Daniel Williams, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), Anonymous(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), ret2happy, Mathis Mansière, James Duffy@@0x4A616D657344, Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, CVE-2026-3784, CVE-2026-3783, Niels Hofmans, Huỳnh Tấn Ngàn, Manuel Fernandez (Stackhopper Security), Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Positive Technologies), Stanislav Jelezoglo, Redon Gashi, Surya Kushwaha, Peter Malone, Dave G., Michael DePlante@@izobashi(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), Arni Hardarson, Jonathan Alush-Aben, 진규정 (Gyujeong Jin, @@G1uN4sh, PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi@@Bugeun, Geonha Lee@@leegn4a, 이재영, Billy Jheng Bing Jhong(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pan Zhenpeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ashish Kunwar, Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.), hxr1, Ashish Kunwar(MurphySec), f0r(MurphySec), Feng Xue(ThreatBook), XGPT(ThreatBook), Mahmoud Abdelmoniem, Wang Yu, Lyutoon, DARKNAVY@@DarkNavyOrg, Fábio Luís@@scanpt, Nicolas Rabrenovic, Pasquale Scola(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@@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), Eddy Tsalolikhin, beist(ASU SEFCOM), Adam Doupé(ASU SEFCOM), Dun(STAR Labs SG Pte), Johnny Franks@@0xjohnny, Somair Ansar(Calif), Asjid Kalam@@odinshell, Abhijeet Singh (linkedin.com/in/abhiunix/), Omar Cerrito, Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io), Jian Zhou, Ye Zhang, Lukas Gerlach, YingMuo@@YingMuo(DEVCORE Research Team), Tristan Rousseau, Dun(DARKNAVY), deepsec@@DarkNavyOrg(DARKNAVY), CVE-2026-4424, Daisuke Hatakeyama Research)@@SYZD, Richard Zana(Nosebeard Labs), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), stratan@@5tratan, wh0am1i, Koh M. Nakagawa@@tsunek0h(FFRI Security Inc), Francisco Knabe, 彦辰, Nik Tsytsarkin, RedRays Security Team, Morris Richman@@morrisinlife, Asaf Cohen, Gongyu Ma@@Mezone0, Kwak Kiyong, Song Nuri, 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), Using GLM(Z), Gia Bui@@yabeow(Calif), Milad Nasr, Nicholas Carlini with Claude, Anthropic, Heiko Kiesel(SEEMOO), TU Darmstadt, Brian Carpenter, OGINOME Tomohito, Shaheen Fazim, impost0r (ret2plt), Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies)(Baidu Security), Tristan Madani@@TristanInSec(Talence Security), dr3dd, Gurpreet Shergill, Merrick Hare, Drinor Selmanaj (Sentry), Khai Tran, John Lussier, Rhyru9, Utkarsh Pal(Almamater Technologies), stratan@@5tratan(Almamater Technologies), Josef Korbel (Citadelo)(Talence Security), Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, CVE-2026-43709, Юлия Мерцалова, Tommy DeVoss@@thedawgyg(Braze Security Team), Luke Francis, Soyeon Park, Amy Burnett, Utkarsh Pal, Ignacio Sanmillan@@ulexec, Kwak Kiyong(Talence Security), Song nuri(Talence Security), Jody Ritonga, Muhamad Syaiful, Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari@@_G4ru_, OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, Vitaly Simonovich, Christian Meurer Xavier, Nan Wang@@eternalsakura13, Mateusz Krzywicki (iVerify.io)(Braze Security Team), dr3dd(Braze Security Team), Josef Korbel, Idan Masas, CVE-2026-28979, Adam Franke(CyStack), Ashish Kunwar(CyStack), Trung Nguyen@@everping(CyStack), Bartlomiej Dmitruk(striga), Stanislaw Strzalkowski(isec), Pinak Oza, Robert Mindo, Irvin Wang, David Ige - Beryllium Security, lokerxx(Economics), Narendra Singh@@_3P1C(Economics), Lyutoon(Economics), Jordy Zomer@@pwningsystems(Economics), Richard Zana(Economics), Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan(Economics), George Stergiopoulos(Economics), InfoSec lab(Economics), Athens University(Economics), Business, Greece, Pavan Nallamothu, Jared Reyes, Richard Zana, Gergely Kalman@@gergely_kalman, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Iru), Rajdip Dey Sarkar, Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange(Nosebeard Labs), Matthew Schneider, Dallas Dubs(Nosebeard Labs), Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team(Nosebeard Labs), XBreach.ai(Nosebeard Labs), Yongyue WANG AKA Brian.W(OKX security), Roman Zabicki(Nosebeard Labs), Katika Mohaseen(Nosebeard Labs), an anonymous researcher(Nosebeard Labs), HvxyZLF, Lance Cain - Offensive Security Engineer, SpecterOps Inc., Mahmoud Abdelmoniem(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Kujtim Kryeziu(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), 이재영(Nosebeard Labs), Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Nosebeard Labs), beist, Gil Portnoy & Henry, Anthony Laou Hine Tsuei@@anarcheuz, Ayaan Ahmad, erdene-och Byambabayar, Alexandre Soleiman, Alexander Tarasikov, Ruslan Dautov, Atul R V & Ashmit Sharma, Hcamael, 章鱼哥 （aipyaipy.com）@@aipy, Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, Surya Narayan Kushwaha, Cem Onat Karagun, Alfredo Pesoli@@__rev(Bynar), Igor Ushakov, Wang Yu(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ji'an Zhou, Mingxuan Yang, Calif Research, Ernesto Martínez García, Amy (amys.website), He Wei (ギカク)(aipyaipy), 章鱼哥@@aipy(aipyaipy), Jex Amro, yk lin@@pixiepointsec, Robert Tran, Mickey Jin@@patch1t, Matej Moravec@@MacejkoMoravec, Aethel-Systems(Chongqing Telecom), Chanwit Muenprakoddee (ChemIndy)(Chongqing Telecom), 九宫格(Chongqing Telecom), Narcis Oliveras Fontàs, Sindre Sorhus, Zachary Neal(Stripe), Hcamael(Stripe), 章鱼哥 (aipyaipy.com)@@aipy(Stripe), JC Alvarado(Stripe), Jacob Hazak, @@pixiepointsec, Ilya Andr (andrd3v), Junming C.(Chapoly1305), wdszzml, Atuin Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine, Bob Gendler(the National Institute of Standards), Technology, Vivek Dhar, ASI (RM) in Border Security Force, FTR HQ BSF Kashmir, 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, Tien-Chih Lin(CyCraft Technology), Tien-Chih Lin, Bruce Dang(Calif)

Affected Software

12 affected componentsFixes available
Apple iOS
Apple iPadOS
Apple macOS Tahoe
Apple visionOS
Apple iOS<26.6
26.6
Apple iPadOS<26.6
26.6
Apple visionOS<26.6
26.6
Apple macOS Tahoe<26.6
26.6
Apple iPadOS<26.6
Apple iPhone OS<26.6
Apple macOS<26.6
Apple visionOS<26.6

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

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
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Sep 14, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:47 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:47 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

Parent advisories

This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.

Peer vulnerabilities

Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

1

Which software updates contain the fix?

The issue is fixed in iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, macOS Tahoe 26.6, and visionOS 26.6.

2

What is the potential impact if a device is vulnerable?

An app may be able to access user-sensitive data.

3

What is known about exploitation requirements or affected default configurations?

The available information does not specify the app permissions, user interaction, configuration conditions, or other requirements needed to exploit the issue.

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