CVE-2026-86891: Use After Free

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 state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS Sequoia 15.8, macOS Tahoe 26.7, watchOS 27. An app may be able to access Bluetooth device information.

— 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

Peter Malone, 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, Cem Onat Karagun, an anonymous researcher, Zhongcheng Li (CK01), Prashan Samarathunge, Franco Belman at Blackwing Intelligence, Mustafa Calap@@ordinal0, dbg.re), Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin, Zhongcheng Li(IES Red Team), Calif.io in collaboration with Claude, Anthropic Research, Ruslan Dautov, CVE-2026-65414, Stanislav Jelezoglo, Heiner Gerdes, Rishabh Jain (rjcyber)(cyberplanet), Pasquale Scola, Dawuge(Shuffle Team), Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Stuart Wallace, Pavan Nallamothu, ret2happy, Meta Product Security, stratan@@5tratan, Rahul Raj, N.M.Praveen Nawarathne@@zblockrat, James Gill @infosec.exchange)@@jjtech, Nik Tsytsarkin, Bruce Dang(Calif), Tommy DeVoss@@thedawgyg(Braze Security Team), Jiyong Yang, Vishal Patidar, Roman Zabicki, Justin O'Leary, Geonha Lee@@leegn4a, f00l@@PPPF00L, 3ndy1@@_3ndy1, Minghao Lin@@Y1nkoc, 云散花折, Arjanit Isufi, Mihalis Haatainen, Ashish Kunwar, Ari Hawking, 이재영, hxr1, Seiji Sakurai@@HeapSmasher, 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), Ye Zhang@@VAR10CK(Baidu 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), Kitten Food, Myeonghun Pak, Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, Alan Banderas@@creeper4004, Claudio Bozzato(Cisco Talos), Francesco Benvenuto(Cisco Talos), Sindre Sorhus(IES Red Team), Hoffcona(IES Red Team), Issa Sancho, Ilya Andr (andrd3v)(Positive Technologies), Dhiyanesh Selvaraj@@redroot97, Narendra Singh@@_3P1C, John Lussier, Filip Olszak, Owen Pawling@@owenpawling, Gongyu Ma (twitter@@Mezone0, YingMuo@@YingMuo(DEVCORE Research Team), Sindre Sorhus, Constantin Clerc(Calif), Shad J(Calif), huami1314@@huamidev(Calif), Huy Nguyen@@34306(Calif), 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, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security)(Appknox), Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E)(Appknox), Dem0ns (@天府简易信工作室), Abdelhak Kherroubi, Jasminder Pal Singh, Lehan Dilusha Jayasingha (Sri Lanka), Nick Cook, Sentry Flag, tamdao, Richard Zana, Mickey Jin@@patch1t, D4rthL, Ahmed Alwardani, Mohamad Dawoud / Abodi Dawoud, Ilya Andr (andrd3v), Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c, Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c(Turkish Technology), Kun Peeks@@SwayZGl1tZyyy, Oren Yomtov, Morris Richman@@morrisinlife, 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), Siyeong kim, AL Najafi, Ryan Hughes, Kujtim Kryeziu (Sentry), Yongyue WANG AKA Brian.W(OKX security), Omar Cerrito, 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, flower xu, Adriatik Raci, PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi@@Bugeun, Daisuke Hatakeyama, Ryohei Ueki Research)@@SYZD, Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, Manish Bhatt, Amazon Leo Security, Junyeong Lee (jylab.github.io), Merrick Hare, Aditya Kumar, John Nzyuko Uvyu, Geoffrey Lovelace, Yurii Bakurov, Ron Masas(BreakPoint), Luke Symons, 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, Meta Red Team X, Niels Hofmans, Mateusz Jurczyk(Google Project Zero), Varik Matevosyan, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Iru), Bernhard Jackiewicz, James Young, genter0, Eddy Tsalolikhin, James Duffy@@0x4A616D657344, Abhijeet Singh (www.linkedin.com/in/abhiunix/), Stuart Thomas, Mohamed Wedatalla, Adrián Díaz Aguilar, HvxyZLF, Dave G., Dave G.(supernetworks), Alex Radocea(supernetworks), Armend Gashi, Matthew Zamat, Yiğit Can YILMAZ@@yilmazcanyigit, Dmytro Merkulov, 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), 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), Meshaal@@unrealmesh, Jakob Pammer(Calif), 재영 정(Calif), 재영 정(ThreatBook), Jay Patel, 재영 정, 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), 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), Tomi Garcia (archyxsec), OGINOME Tomohito, 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), 진규정 (Gyujeong Jin, @@G1uN4sh, Pan ZhenPeng@@Peterpan0927(STAR Labs SG Pte)

Affected Software

7 affected componentsFixes available
Apple WatchOS<27
27
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
Apple WatchOS<27.0

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

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
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Affected 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 systems should be prioritized for remediation?

Prioritize Apple devices running macOS Golden Gate, macOS Sequoia, macOS Tahoe, or watchOS that have not been updated to the listed fixed releases: macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS Sequoia 15.8, macOS Tahoe 26.7, and watchOS 27.

2

Can this data identify a specific affected component or exploit path?

No. The advisory data aggregates multiple issue types and components, but does not map this CVE to one specific component, attack vector, privilege requirement, or exploitation indicator.

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