CVE-2026-84587: Buffer Overflow

Published Sep 14, 2026
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Updated

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS Sequoia 15.8, macOS Tahoe 26.7. An app may be able to access protected user data.

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

Accounts. An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

— Apple

afpfs. This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.

— Apple

AMD. The issue was addressed with improved checks.

— Apple

Credit

Peter Malone, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security), 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, Dave G., an anonymous researcher, Cem Onat Karagun, Bhaswanth Chigurupati, 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, Ruslan Dautov, Ye Zhang@@VAR10CK(Baidu Security), CVE-2026-65414, Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), Marc Newlin(SkySafe), jioundai, 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), Mathis Mansière, Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, Nik Tsytsarkin, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Siyeong kim, Meta Product Security, AL Najafi, Merrick Hare, Ryan Hughes, Kujtim Kryeziu (Sentry), Pavan Nallamothu, ret2happy, 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, 章鱼哥 (aipyaipy.com)@@aipy, Thiago Mayllart, 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), Aditya Kumar, John Nzyuko Uvyu, Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, Geoffrey Lovelace, Yurii Bakurov, Bruce Dang(Calif), Ron Masas(BreakPoint), Luke Symons, Andrey Chernykh, Jiyong Yang, Vishal Patidar, Roman Zabicki, Redon Gashi(Sentry), 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@@olearysec(olearysec), 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(Calif), Josh Maine(Calif), Bernhard Jackiewicz, Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io), James Young, OpenAI, Hüseyin Kabasakal@@HuseyinK01, 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, Shuiliang Xie, Kitten Food, 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), 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, @@08Tc3wBB(Jamf), 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, Abodi Dawoud(van Dijk), Merrick Hare(van Dijk), Roel(van Dijk), Owen Pawling@@owenpawling, Stanislav Jelezoglo, Gongyu Ma (twitter@@Mezone0, Jonghoon Han (Aegis)(Shuffle Team), bubu(Shuffle Team), 이재영(Shuffle Team), Tae Woo Kim(Shuffle Team), Ricardo Prado, 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, Paul Montgomery@@nullevent, Jérôme Djouder, Seung Je Seong(Positive Technologies), Jakob Pammer, Meridian Miftari, Amy (amys.website), Kirin@@Pwnrin, Zhongquan Li@@Guluisacat, Koh M. Nakagawa@@tsunek0h(FFRI Security Inc), deepsec@@DarkNavyOrg(DARKNAVY), Mickey Jin@@patch1t(Iru), Rohit Chatterjee(Iru), Zhongquan Li@@Guluisacat(Iru), Lance Cain - Senior Consultant at SpecterOps Inc.(Iru), 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), Joshua Jewett@@JoshJewett33, Tomi (tk0) Koski@@tomikoski, Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange, HE WEI（ギカク）(Calif), Joseph Semaan(Calif), bubu(Calif), Omar Cerrito(Calif), HE WEI (ギカク)(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), Kwak Kiyong / kakaogames, OGINOME Tomohito, Drin Raci(sentry), f00l@@PPPF00L, 3ndy1@@_3ndy1, Jared Reyes, Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange(Nosebeard Labs), Manish Bhatt(Nosebeard Labs), Amazon Leo Security(Nosebeard Labs), Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon(Nosebeard Labs), Jonathan Bar Or@@yo_yo_yo_jbo(ThreatBook), Lyutoon, wdszzml, Atuin Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine, Peter Malone(ThreatBook), 이재영(Positive Technologies), Jakob Pammer(Positive Technologies), He Wei（ギカク)(Calif), Niels Hofmans(sentry), 진규정 (Gyujeong Jin, @@G1uN4sh, hxr1, Ashish Kunwar(Positive Technologies), Mikhail Lozhnikov(Positive Technologies), Pan ZhenPeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte)

Affected Software

5 affected componentsFixes available
Apple macOS Golden Gate<27
27
Apple macOS Tahoe<26.7
26.7
Apple macOS Sequoia<15.8
15.8
Apple macOS>=15.0<15.8
Apple macOS>=26.0<26.7

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 27
  2. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 26.7
  3. Upgrade

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

    Fixed in 15.8
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade macOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 27
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade macOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 15.8
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade macOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 26.7

Event History

Sep 14, 2026
Data Sourced
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:49 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:49 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 macOS releases contain the fixes?

The issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS Sequoia 15.8, and macOS Tahoe 26.7.

2

What security impacts are identified in the available information?

The information identifies potential access to protected user data by an app. It also lists out-of-bounds write, authorization, permissions, path-validation, and data-protection issues across several macOS components.

3

Which components are associated with the listed issues?

The listed components are Accelerate Framework, Accessibility, Accounts, APFS, App Store, and AppKit.

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