CVE-2026-84555: Input Validation
Published Sep 14, 2026
·Updated
Accelerate Framework. An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
Other sources
Accessibility. This issue was addressed with improved data protection.
— Apple
Accounts. An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.
— Apple
An authorization issue was addressed with improved access control. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS Sequoia 15.8. An app may be able to access sensitive user data.
— MITRE
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
Credit
Stuart Wallace(Totally Not Malicious Software), Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Totally Not Malicious Software), Rosyna Keller(Totally Not Malicious Software), CJ Vana, David Strnadel, Daniel Febrero, Asaf Cohen, Gongyu Ma@@Mezone0, Jian Lee@@speedyfriend433, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security)(Appknox), Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E)(Appknox), Stuart Wallace, 이재영, an anonymous researcher, Cem Onat Karagun, Zhongcheng Li (CK01), Prashan Samarathunge, Dem0ns (@天府简易信工作室), Abdelhak Kherroubi, Jasminder Pal Singh, Lehan Dilusha Jayasingha (Sri Lanka), Nick Cook, Sentry Flag, tamdao, Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, Richard Zana, Billy Jheng Bing Jhong(STAR Labs SG Pte), Pan Zhenpeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), Mickey Jin@@patch1t, D4rthL, Ahmed Alwardani, Mohamad Dawoud / Abodi Dawoud, Ilya Andr (andrd3v), Zhongcheng Li(IES Red Team), Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c, Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c(Turkish Technology), Kun Peeks@@SwayZGl1tZyyy, Oren Yomtov, Morris Richman@@morrisinlife, Sindre Sorhus, Calif.io in collaboration with Claude, Anthropic Research, Peter Malone, Ruslan Dautov, Ye Zhang@@VAR10CK(Baidu Security), CVE-2026-65414, Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), Sanny Mitra(Cystack), Sihyun Roh (Compsec(Cystack), SNU)(Cystack), ngockhanh(Cystack), Ataberk Yavuzer, 정우 하@@0xfa11babe, Surej Sekhar, Suresh Sundaram, Hari Shanmugam (The Hxr1), Rishabh Jain (rjcyber)(cyberplanet), Pasquale Scola, Dawuge(Shuffle Team), Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, Nik Tsytsarkin, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Siyeong kim, AL Najafi, Ryan Hughes, Kujtim Kryeziu (Sentry), Pavan Nallamothu, ret2happy, Meta Product Security, Mustafa Calap@@ordinal0, dbg.re), stratan@@5tratan, Rahul Raj, Yongyue WANG AKA Brian.W(OKX security), Omar Cerrito, Tristan Madani@@TristanInSec(Talence Security), Юлия Мерцалова, Aaron Grattafiori - NVIDIA AI Red Team, Joseph Shamoon, Meshaal @ Darkcov, 章鱼哥 (aipyaipy.com）@@aipy, 章鱼哥 （aipyaipy.com）@@aipy, instantraaamen (github.com/instantraaamen) Contact: masa.shiramizu.com@@gmail, N.M.Praveen Nawarathne@@zblockrat, James Gill @infosec.exchange)@@jjtech, Tommy DeVoss@@thedawgyg(Braze Security Team), flower xu, Adriatik Raci, PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi@@Bugeun, Daisuke Hatakeyama, Ryohei Ueki Research)@@SYZD, Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, Manish Bhatt, Amazon Leo Security, Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin, Junyeong Lee (jylab.github.io), Merrick Hare, Aditya Kumar, John Nzyuko Uvyu, Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, Geoffrey Lovelace, Yurii Bakurov, Bruce Dang(Calif), Ron Masas(BreakPoint), Luke Symons, Jiyong Yang, Vishal Patidar, Roman Zabicki, Feng Xue(ThreatBook), XGPT(ThreatBook), Alfredo Pesoli@@__rev(Bynar), Jonathan Bar Or@@yo_yo_yo_jbo, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security)(Talence Security), 정우 하, Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan, Dun, Justin O'Leary, Meta Red Team X, Niels Hofmans, Geonha Lee@@leegn4a, Mateusz Jurczyk(Google Project Zero), Varik Matevosyan, Mihalis Haatainen, Ashish Kunwar, Ari Hawking, Seiji Sakurai@@HeapSmasher, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Iru), genter0(Calif), Svetoslav Stolarov & Aisa Fox(Calif), Josh Maine(Calif), Bernhard Jackiewicz, Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io), Bhaswanth Chigurupati, James Young, Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.), Surya Narayan Kushwaha, genter0, Eddy Tsalolikhin, James Duffy@@0x4A616D657344, Abhijeet Singh (www.linkedin.com/in/abhiunix/), R4mbb(KRsecurity), Stuart Thomas, Vladislav Shevchenko (Positive Technologies), Fábio Luís@@scanpt(STAR Labs SG Pte), Richard Zana(STAR Labs SG Pte), Mohamed Wedatalla, Arjanit Isufi, Adrián Díaz Aguilar, HvxyZLF, Kitten Food, Dave G., Dave G.(supernetworks), Alex Radocea(supernetworks), Armend Gashi, Myeonghun Pak, Alan Banderas@@creeper4004, Matthew Zamat, Yiğit Can YILMAZ@@yilmazcanyigit, Dmytro Merkulov, Claudio Bozzato(Cisco Talos), Francesco Benvenuto(Cisco Talos), Sindre Sorhus(IES Red Team), Hoffcona(IES Red Team), silo, Kenneth Chew, Dora Orak, Arbuckle@@Ethan, @@leptos_null, Hongsik Kim (mnur), Bálint Magyar (balintmagyar.com), Kieran Klukas (taciturnaxolotl), Liu Xue & 九宫格(Chongqing Telecom), Issa Sancho, Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Positive Technologies), Dhiyanesh Selvaraj@@redroot97, Alfredo Pesoli via Bynario Atlas (bynar.io)@@__rev, 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), John Lussier, Filip Olszak, Meshaal@@unrealmesh, Owen Pawling@@owenpawling, Stanislav Jelezoglo, Gongyu Ma (twitter@@Mezone0, Jakob Pammer(Calif), 재영 정(Calif), 재영 정(ThreatBook), Jay Patel, 재영 정, YingMuo@@YingMuo(DEVCORE Research Team), Rodolphe BRUNETTI@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Abodi Dawoud, 糖豆爸爸(@晴天组织), Robert Mindo, Ujjwal Reddy Kalvolu Sreenivasa Reddy, Johan Wahyudi, Jérôme Djouder, Seung Je Seong(Positive Technologies), Jakob Pammer, Meridian Miftari, Amy (amys.website), Zhongquan Li@@Guluisacat, Koh M. Nakagawa@@tsunek0h(FFRI Security Inc), Zeyang Li&Yuxiang Wang(Chongqing Telecom), an anonymous researcher(Iru), Rodolphe Brunetti@@eisw0lf(Iru), Ryan Dowd@@_rdowd(Iru), Isaiah Ryan Ehlert (isaiahehlert.com)@@icloud(Iru), Charlie Weiss, Noah Gregory (wts.dev), Tomi (tk0) Koski@@tomikoski, Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange, HE WEI（ギカク）(Calif), bubu(Calif), Omar Cerrito(Calif), Roman Zabicki(Calif), Richard Zana(Calif), Chris Bailey - Short Circuit(Calif), Aswin Kumar Gokulakannan(Calif), Surya Narayan Kushwaha(Calif), Souta Sugiyama, Viggo Lekdorf, Tomi Garcia (archyxsec), OGINOME Tomohito, Jared Reyes, Jonathan Bar Or@@yo_yo_yo_jbo(ThreatBook), 진규정 (Gyujeong Jin, @@G1uN4sh, hxr1, Ashish Kunwar(Positive Technologies), Mikhail Lozhnikov(Positive Technologies), Peter Malone(ThreatBook), Pan ZhenPeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte), 이재영(Positive Technologies), Jakob Pammer(Positive Technologies), Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange(Nosebeard Labs)
Affected Software
4 affected componentsFixes available
Apple macOS Golden Gate<27
27
Apple macOS Sequoia<15.8
15.8
Apple macOS>=15.0<15.8
Apple macOS>=26.0<27.0
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Upgrade
Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.
Fixed in 27 - Upgrade
Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.
Fixed in 15.8
Event History
Sep 14, 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·08:51 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:51 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Peer vulnerabilities
Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.
- CVE-2026-86882
- CVE-2026-43664
- CVE-2026-65404
- CVE-2026-86910
- CVE-2026-84523
- CVE-2026-86888
- CVE-2026-84587
- CVE-2026-84586
- CVE-2026-20683
- CVE-2026-84601
- CVE-2026-65408
- CVE-2026-65407
- CVE-2026-84519
- CVE-2026-84520
- CVE-2026-65381
- CVE-2026-84584
- CVE-2026-84522
- CVE-2026-84525
- CVE-2026-65342
- CVE-2026-86905
- CVE-2026-84583
- CVE-2026-84570
- CVE-2026-84568
- CVE-2026-84535
- CVE-2026-65410
- CVE-2026-84616
- CVE-2026-84607
- CVE-2026-65406
- CVE-2026-65414
- CVE-2026-84560
- CVE-2026-84631
- CVE-2026-84567
- CVE-2026-65399
- CVE-2026-86891
- CVE-2026-43683
- CVE-2026-43789
- CVE-2026-64752
- CVE-2026-86876
- CVE-2026-65344
- CVE-2026-84624
- CVE-2026-43737
- CVE-2026-84574
- CVE-2026-84559
- CVE-2026-43786
- CVE-2026-65412
- CVE-2026-84596
- CVE-2026-84575
- CVE-2026-84489
- CVE-2026-84571
- CVE-2026-43738
- CVE-2026-84511
- CVE-2026-84563
- CVE-2026-34979
- CVE-2026-43698
- CVE-2026-64790
- CVE-2026-43692
- CVE-2026-84554
- CVE-2026-43691
- CVE-2026-84541
- CVE-2026-84540
- CVE-2026-84516
- CVE-2026-84612
- CVE-2026-84505
- CVE-2026-84565
- CVE-2026-84552
- CVE-2026-84550
- CVE-2026-65362
- CVE-2026-84512
- CVE-2026-84510
- CVE-2026-86901
- CVE-2026-86900
- CVE-2026-43785
- CVE-2026-84534
- CVE-2026-43688
- CVE-2026-84524
- CVE-2026-84597
- CVE-2026-84569
- CVE-2026-65409
- CVE-2026-86911
- CVE-2026-84618
- CVE-2026-84492
- CVE-2026-84533
- CVE-2022-3437
- CVE-2026-84581
- CVE-2026-28934
- CVE-2026-84606
- CVE-2026-64756
- CVE-2026-64714
- CVE-2026-84564
- CVE-2026-86869
- CVE-2026-65395
- CVE-2026-28969
- CVE-2026-65398
- CVE-2026-64760
- CVE-2026-65354
- CVE-2026-84588
- CVE-2026-28968
- CVE-2026-84566
- CVE-2026-65415
- CVE-2026-84561
- CVE-2026-84630
- CVE-2026-65401
- CVE-2026-65360
- CVE-2026-65358
- CVE-2026-84558
- CVE-2026-65377
- CVE-2026-84622
- CVE-2026-84549
- CVE-2026-43689
- CVE-2026-84619
- CVE-2026-65369
- CVE-2026-86917
- CVE-2026-84544
- CVE-2026-43790
- CVE-2026-43687
- CVE-2026-43686
- CVE-2026-84538
- CVE-2026-43684
- CVE-2026-65405
- CVE-2026-65364
- CVE-2026-84530
- CVE-2026-84521
- CVE-2026-65402
- CVE-2026-65359
- CVE-2026-84517
- CVE-2026-84507
- CVE-2026-86903
- CVE-2026-84602
- CVE-2026-84514
- CVE-2026-84556
- CVE-2026-65382
- CVE-2026-86870
- CVE-2026-86894
- CVE-2026-84577
- CVE-2026-84573
- CVE-2026-43787
- CVE-2026-84628
- CVE-2026-43741
- CVE-2026-86924
- CVE-2026-84497
- CVE-2026-84585
- CVE-2026-43695
- CVE-2026-84626
- CVE-2026-86902
- CVE-2026-64712
- CVE-2026-84491
- CVE-2026-84580
- CVE-2026-84578
- CVE-2026-84576
- CVE-2026-84548
- CVE-2026-28966
- CVE-2026-84532
- CVE-2026-65403
- CVE-2026-84518
- CVE-2026-86897
- CVE-2026-65380
- CVE-2026-84555
- CVE-2026-84551
- CVE-2026-84625
- CVE-2026-43697
- CVE-2026-84487
- CVE-2026-65413
- CVE-2026-84632
- CVE-2026-84620
- CVE-2026-84546
- CVE-2026-84611
- CVE-2026-84526
- CVE-2026-65400
- CVE-2026-86889
- CVE-2026-86881
- CVE-2026-84531
- CVE-2026-84600
- CVE-2026-86884
- CVE-2026-43690
- CVE-2026-43719
- CVE-2026-65376
- CVE-2026-84543
- CVE-2026-84537
- CVE-2026-84536
- CVE-2026-65365
- CVE-2026-84515
- CVE-2026-84509
- CVE-2026-84553
- CVE-2026-84609
- CVE-2026-65361
- CVE-2026-65378
- CVE-2026-84621
- CVE-2026-43788
- CVE-2026-65348
- CVE-2026-65345
- CVE-2026-43791
- CVE-2026-84513
- CVE-2026-65383
- CVE-2026-86909
- CVE-2026-84527
- CVE-2026-84589
- CVE-2026-28937
- CVE-2026-43696
- CVE-2026-84572
- CVE-2026-84506
- CVE-2026-28899
- CVE-2026-65374
- CVE-2026-65375
- CVE-2026-43677
- CVE-2026-84635
- CVE-2026-64753
- CVE-2026-86898
- CVE-2026-64718
- CVE-2026-65393
- CVE-2026-84617
- CVE-2026-43763
- CVE-2026-65339
- CVE-2026-43702
- CVE-2026-64758
- CVE-2026-65346
- CVE-2026-64736
- CVE-2026-65349
- CVE-2026-65330
- CVE-2026-28935
- CVE-2026-65371
- CVE-2026-28930
Frequently Asked Questions
1
Which macOS releases include the fix?
The issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27 and macOS Sequoia 15.8.
2
What access outcome is explicitly identified?
The provided information states that an app may be able to access sensitive user data. It does not specify additional prerequisites, such as user interaction or a particular app permission.
3
Is an interim mitigation documented for systems that cannot yet be updated?
No interim mitigation or workaround is provided in the supplied information. The documented remediation is updating to the listed fixed macOS releases.