CVE-2026-65339: Use After Free

Published Aug 17, 2026
·
Updated

A logic issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.6.1 and iPadOS 26.6.1, macOS Sequoia 15.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6.2, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, watchOS 27. An app may be able to leak sensitive user information.

Other sources

Accelerate Framework. An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

— Apple

Accessibility. This issue was addressed with improved data protection.

— Apple

APFS. A permissions issue was addressed with improved path validation.

— Apple

APFS. An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

— Apple

App Store. A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

— Apple

Credit

Mustafa Calap@@ordinal0, dbg.re), Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin, Zhongcheng Li(IES Red Team), Calif.io in collaboration with Claude, Anthropic Research, Peter Malone, Ruslan Dautov, Ye Zhang@@VAR10CK(Baidu Security), CVE-2026-65414, an anonymous researcher, Stanislav Jelezoglo, Heiner Gerdes, Siyeong kim, Stuart Wallace, ret2happy, Meta Product Security, stratan@@5tratan, Rahul Raj, N.M.Praveen Nawarathne@@zblockrat, James Gill @infosec.exchange)@@jjtech, Junyeong Lee (jylab.github.io), Merrick Hare, Aditya Kumar, John Nzyuko Uvyu, Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, Nik Tsytsarkin, Bruce Dang(Calif), Tommy DeVoss@@thedawgyg(Braze Security Team), Jiyong Yang, Vishal Patidar, Roman Zabicki, Justin O'Leary, Geonha Lee@@leegn4a, Mateusz Jurczyk(Google Project Zero), Varik Matevosyan, Mihalis Haatainen, Ashish Kunwar, Ari Hawking, 이재영, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, David Strnadel, hxr1, Seiji Sakurai@@HeapSmasher, Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, genter0(Calif), Svetoslav Stolarov & Aisa Fox(Calif), Josh Maine(Calif), Dun, Billy Jheng Bing Jhong(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pan Zhenpeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io), Drinor Selmanaj (Sentry), Surya Narayan Kushwaha, Bhaswanth Chigurupati, Tristan Madani@@TristanInSec(Talence Security), Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.), R4mbb(KRsecurity), Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies), Fábio Luís@@scanpt(STAR Labs SG Pte), Richard Zana(STAR Labs SG Pte), Ashish Kunwar(Positive Technologies), Mikhail Lozhnikov(Positive Technologies), Bhaswanth Chigurupati(STAR Labs SG Pte), Myeonghun Pak, Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, Alan Banderas@@creeper4004, Yiğit Can YILMAZ@@yilmazcanyigit, Claudio Bozzato(Cisco Talos), Francesco Benvenuto(Cisco Talos), Sindre Sorhus(IES Red Team), Hoffcona(IES Red Team), Hongsik Kim (mnur), Dhiyanesh Selvaraj@@redroot97, John Lussier, Filip Olszak, Owen Pawling@@owenpawling, Gongyu Ma (twitter@@Mezone0, YingMuo@@YingMuo(DEVCORE Research Team), Sindre Sorhus, Zeyang Li&Yuxiang Wang(Chongqing Telecom), Souta Sugiyama, Henock Habte, Viggo Lekdorf, Hossein Lotfi@@hosselot(TrendAI Zero Day Initiative), 杉山 壮太, Shubham Chaskar, Dung Do@@_piers2(Calif), Mohit Negi, Myungyong Lee, Kwak Kiyong@@Pwnkai23, Song Nuri, Jian Lee@@speedyfriend433, Stuart Wallace(Totally Not Malicious Software), Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Totally Not Malicious Software), Rosyna Keller(Totally Not Malicious Software), CJ Vana, Daniel Febrero, Asaf Cohen, Gongyu Ma@@Mezone0, Cem Onat Karagun, Zhongcheng Li (CK01), Prashan Samarathunge, Rishabh Jain (rjcyber)(cyberplanet), Pasquale Scola, Dawuge(Shuffle Team), Pavan Nallamothu, f00l@@PPPF00L, 3ndy1@@_3ndy1, Minghao Lin@@Y1nkoc, 云散花折, Arjanit Isufi, Kitten Food, Issa Sancho, Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Positive Technologies), Constantin Clerc(Calif), Shad J(Calif), huami1314@@huamidev(Calif), Huy Nguyen@@34306(Calif), Dem0ns (@天府简易信工作室), Abdelhak Kherroubi, Jasminder Pal Singh, Lehan Dilusha Jayasingha (Sri Lanka), Ilya Andr (andrd3v), AL Najafi, tamdao, Geoffrey Lovelace, Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), Morris Richman@@morrisinlife, Tristan Brennan, Rodolphe Brunetti@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Lehan Dilusha Jayasingha, Janggoon Lee(Out of Bounds), OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, wwwlk, Charles Kern, Seonwook Kim, lattice, Josef Korbel, Thomas Guillem, Niels Hofmans, Josef Korbel (Citadelo), Kun Peeks@@SwayZGl1tZyyy, Tomi Garcia (archyxsec), OGINOME Tomohito, Richard Zana, Mickey Jin@@patch1t, Jared Reyes, D4rthL, Mohamad Dawoud / Abodi Dawoud, Ahmed Alwardani, Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c(Turkish Technology), Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c, Oren Yomtov, Sanny Mitra(Cystack), Sihyun Roh (Compsec(Cystack), SNU)(Cystack), ngockhanh(Cystack), 정우 하@@0xfa11babe, Suresh Sundaram, Surej Sekhar, Hari Shanmugam (The Hxr1), Ataberk Yavuzer, Ryan Hughes, Kujtim Kryeziu (Sentry), Yongyue WANG AKA Brian.W(OKX security), Omar Cerrito, 章鱼哥 （aipyaipy.com）@@aipy, instantraaamen (github.com/instantraaamen) Contact: masa.shiramizu.com@@gmail, Meshaal @ Darkcov, Joseph Shamoon, Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, 章鱼哥 (aipyaipy.com）@@aipy, flower xu, Adriatik Raci, PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi@@Bugeun, Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, Daisuke Hatakeyama, Ryohei Ueki Research)@@SYZD, Manish Bhatt, Amazon Leo Security, Luke Symons, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security)(Talence Security), 정우 하, Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, Jonathan Bar Or@@yo_yo_yo_jbo(ThreatBook), Feng Xue(ThreatBook), XGPT(ThreatBook), Alfredo Pesoli@@__rev(Bynar), 진규정 (Gyujeong Jin, @@G1uN4sh, Bernhard Jackiewicz, genter0, James Duffy@@0x4A616D657344, Eddy Tsalolikhin, Abhijeet Singh (www.linkedin.com/in/abhiunix/), Stuart Thomas, Mohamed Wedatalla, HvxyZLF, Adrián Díaz Aguilar, Armend Gashi, Kenneth Chew, Dora Orak, Arbuckle@@Ethan, @@leptos_null, Liu Xue & 九宫格(Chongqing Telecom), Jaeho Nam(SNU CSE MMLAB), Jungbum Lee(SNU CSE MMLAB), Sangwi Kang(SNU CSE MMLAB), Hyeonguk Ko(SNU CSE MMLAB), Taekyoung Kwon(SNU CSE MMLAB), Jakob Pammer(Calif), 재영 정(Calif), 재영 정(ThreatBook), Peter Malone(ThreatBook), Jay Patel, 재영 정, Dave G., Rodolphe BRUNETTI@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Pan ZhenPeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Abodi Dawoud, 糖豆爸爸(@晴天组织), Robert Mindo, Ujjwal Reddy Kalvolu Sreenivasa Reddy, Johan Wahyudi, 이재영(Positive Technologies), Seung Je Seong(Positive Technologies), Jakob Pammer(Positive Technologies), Jérôme Djouder, Amy (amys.website), Meridian Miftari, Tomi (tk0) Koski@@tomikoski, bubu(Calif), Surya Narayan Kushwaha(Calif), Roman Zabicki(Calif), Richard Zana(Calif), Omar Cerrito(Calif), HE WEI（ギカク）(Calif), Chris Bailey - Short Circuit(Calif), Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange(Nosebeard Labs), Xint Code, Talal Haj Bakry(Mysk Inc), Tommy Mysk@@mysk_co(Mysk Inc), Shubham Chaskar(Braze Security Team), Bedran Karakoc(Ruhr University Bochum), Tobias Funke(Ruhr University Bochum), Jacopo Clark(Ruhr University Bochum), Katharina Kohls(Ruhr University Bochum)

Affected Software

10 affected componentsFixes available
Apple iPadOS<26.6.1
Apple iPhone OS<26.6.1
Apple macOS>=26.0<26.6.2
Apple iOS<26.6.1
26.6.1
Apple iPadOS<26.6.1
26.6.1
Apple macOS Tahoe<26.6.2
26.6.2
Apple tvOS<27
27
Apple WatchOS<27
27
Apple visionOS<27
27
Apple macOS Sequoia<15.8
15.8

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 26.6.1
  2. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 26.6.2
  3. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 27
  4. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 15.8
  5. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in iOS 26.6.1
  6. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in iPadOS 26.6.1
  7. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.8
  8. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in macOS Tahoe 26.6.2
  9. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in tvOS 27
  10. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in visionOS 27
  11. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in watchOS 27

Event History

Aug 17, 2026
Data Sourced
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
Sep 14, 2026
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Affected Software
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

Which systems should be prioritized for remediation?

The issue affects Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Tahoe systems that have not installed the listed fixes: iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1, or macOS Tahoe 26.6.2.

2

What access would an attacker need, and what is the likely impact?

Exploitation requires local access, low privileges, and user interaction according to the CVSS vector. A successful exploit may allow an app to disclose sensitive user information; integrity and availability impact are not indicated.

3

What should teams do if they are affected?

Install iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1, or macOS Tahoe 26.6.2, as applicable. The provided information does not identify a workaround or mitigation for systems that cannot yet be updated.

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