CVE-2026-86918: Medium severity Apple iOS vulnerability

Published Sep 14, 2026
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Updated

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

Other sources

An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, watchOS 27. Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to unexpected app termination.

— NVD

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, 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, jioundai, Stanislav Jelezoglo, Heiner Gerdes, Rishabh Jain (rjcyber)(cyberplanet), Pasquale Scola, Dawuge(Shuffle Team), Duc Anh Nguyen & Ta Duc Thien, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Meta Product Security, Stuart Wallace, Pavan Nallamothu, ret2happy, 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@@olearysec(olearysec), Geonha Lee@@leegn4a, Mateusz Jurczyk(Google Project Zero), Chanwit Muenprakoddee (ChemIndy), 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(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), OpenAI, Hüseyin Kabasakal@@HuseyinK01, Kitten Food, Myeonghun Pak, Nathaniel Oh@@calysteon, Alan Banderas@@creeper4004, Claudio Bozzato(Cisco Talos), Francesco Benvenuto(Cisco Talos), 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), Junhyuk Im(S2W Inc), Seungyun Lee(S2W Inc), Mohit Negi, Myungyong Lee, Kwak Kiyong@@Pwnkai23, Song Nuri, Efstratios Kaplanellis@@5tratan(Almamater Technologies), Jakob Pammer, Drin Raci(sentry), Niels Hofmans, Siyeong kim, Junyeong Lee (jylab.github.io), Merrick Hare, Aditya Kumar, John Nzyuko Uvyu, Varik Matevosyan, Yiğit Can YILMAZ@@yilmazcanyigit, Hongsik Kim (mnur), Dem0ns (@天府简易信工作室), Abdelhak Kherroubi, Jasminder Pal Singh, Lehan Dilusha Jayasingha (Sri Lanka), Johan Wahyudi, S. Rosario, tamdao, Ilya Andr (andrd3v), Jihwan Yoon, Mathis Mansière, AL Najafi, Geoffrey Lovelace, He Wei (ギカク), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), Morris Richman@@morrisinlife, Tristan Brennan, Rodolphe Brunetti@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), Piotr Jerzy Duszynski(MurphySec), f0r(MurphySec), PETOWORKS의 Bugeun Choi@@Bugeun, ธนกฤต ทัฬหะ, Abodi Dawoud(van Dijk), Merrick Hare(van Dijk), Roel(van Dijk), OSORI, Jonghoon Han (Aegis)(Shuffle Team), bubu(Shuffle Team), 이재영(Shuffle Team), Tae Woo Kim(Shuffle Team), Lehan Dilusha Jayasingha, Janggoon Lee(Out of Bounds), OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, wwwlk, Charles Kern, Seonwook Kim, lattice, Josef Korbel, Thomas Guillem, Josef Korbel (Citadelo), Kun Peeks@@SwayZGl1tZyyy, Tomi Garcia (archyxsec), Kwak Kiyong / kakaogames, OGINOME Tomohito, Arni Hardarson (Neonix Security)(Appknox), Vinay Kumar Rasala (Xplo8E)(Appknox), Abodi Dawoud, Richard Zana, Alexandre Borges, Tuan D. Hoang, Hazem Issa, Yongdae Kim @ KAIST SysSec Lab, Yongdae Kim @ SysSec, KAIST, Beomseok Oh@@KAIST, Yongdae Kim@@KAIST, Sindre Sorhus(Positive Technologies), flower xu, Adriatik Raci, Daisuke Hatakeyama, Ryohei Ueki Research)@@SYZD, Hyunwoo Kim@@v4bel, Luke Symons, Eddy Tsalolikhin, Johann Rehberger, Musaab Khan@@bxff(Tencent Xuanwu Lab), XlabAI Team(Tencent Xuanwu Lab), Atuin Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine, Guannan Wang, Zhanpeng Liu, Jiashuo Liang, Guancheng Li, Iain Harkiss, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Iru), Bernhard Jackiewicz, Wang Yu, CVE-2019-5598, Matthew Zamat, Bálint Magyar (balintmagyar.com), Meshaal@@unrealmesh, Gergely Kalman@@gergely_kalman, Jagannath Mohanty, Abhay Kailasia@@abhay_kailasia(Safran Mumbai India), Armend Gashi, Ujjwal Reddy Kalvolu Sreenivasa Reddy, Jérôme Djouder, Seung Je Seong(Positive Technologies), Kirin@@Pwnrin, Bedran Karakoc(Ruhr University Bochum), Tobias Funke(Ruhr University Bochum), Jacopo Clark(Ruhr University Bochum), Katharina Kohls(Ruhr University Bochum), Mohamad Dawoud, Aaron Schlitt@@aaron_sfn(Hasso Plattner Institute), Cybersecurity - Mobile & Wireless, Jacob Prezant (prezant.us), Yusuf Kelany, LiangWei, Dave G., Nick Cook, Sentry Flag, Mickey Jin@@patch1t, D4rthL, Ahmed Alwardani, Mohamad Dawoud / Abodi Dawoud, Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c, Mr.Gedik@@h4ck2s3c(Turkish Technology), Oren Yomtov, Marc Newlin(SkySafe), Murray Mike(Nosebeard Labs), zenith, Sanny Mitra(Cystack), Sihyun Roh (Compsec(Cystack), SNU)(Cystack), ngockhanh(Cystack), Ataberk Yavuzer, 정우 하@@0xfa11babe, Surej Sekhar, Suresh Sundaram, Hari Shanmugam (The Hxr1), 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, 章鱼哥 (aipyaipy.com)@@aipy, Jurre van Bergen - Threatnotify, Redon Gashi (Sentry), Thiago Mayllart, Manish Bhatt, Amazon Leo Security, oxsignal, Yurii Bakurov, Ron Masas(BreakPoint), Andrey Chernykh, Anand (anandsreekumar.com), 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, Meta Red Team X, James Young, genter0, James Duffy@@0x4A616D657344, Abhijeet Singh (www.linkedin.com/in/abhiunix/), Stuart Thomas, Mohamed Wedatalla, Adrián Díaz Aguilar, HvxyZLF, Shuiliang Xie, Dave G.(supernetworks), Alex Radocea(supernetworks), Mustafa Ahmed, Dmytro Merkulov, silo, Tristan Madani (Talence Security), Kenneth Chew, Dora Orak, Arbuckle@@Ethan, @@leptos_null, Kieran Klukas (taciturnaxolotl), Liu Xue & 九宫格(Chongqing Telecom), @@08Tc3wBB(Jamf), Prathamesh Walunj(Iru), Ahmad Al Harrizuan Izadin, Alfredo Pesoli via Bynario Atlas (bynar.io)@@__rev, Anon Tuttu Venus, Stefan Esser (Calif), 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), Pranav Gopalkrishnan, Alan Wang, Ailsa Sun, Hovav Shacham, Riccardo Paccagnella, Chris Fletcher, David Kohlbrenner, Ricardo Prado, Abodi Dawoud(Best Buddy Apps), Guilherme Rambo(Best Buddy Apps), Jakob Pammer(Calif), 재영 정(Calif), 재영 정(ThreatBook), Jay Patel, 재영 정, Rodolphe BRUNETTI@@eisw0lf(Lupus Nova), 糖豆爸爸(@晴天组织), Robert Mindo, Paul Montgomery@@nullevent, Meridian Miftari, Amy (amys.website), Zhongquan Li@@Guluisacat, Koh M. Nakagawa@@tsunek0h(FFRI Security Inc), deepsec@@DarkNavyOrg(DARKNAVY), Rohit Chatterjee, Lance Cain - Senior Consultant at SpecterOps 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), 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)

Affected Software

18 affected componentsFixes available
Apple iOS<27
Apple iPadOS<27
Apple macOS Golden Gate<27
Apple tvOS<27
Apple visionOS<27
Apple WatchOS<27
Apple WatchOS<27
27
Apple tvOS<27
27
Apple visionOS<27
27
Apple iOS<27
27
Apple iPadOS<27
27
Apple macOS Golden Gate<27
27
Apple iPadOS<27.0
Apple iPhone OS<27.0
Apple macOS<27.0
Apple tvOS<27.0
Apple visionOS<27.0
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 Apple Accelerate Framework to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in iOS 27
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apple Accelerate Framework to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in iPadOS 27
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apple Accelerate Framework to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apple Accelerate Framework to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in tvOS 27
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apple Accelerate Framework to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in visionOS 27
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apple Accelerate Framework to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in watchOS 27

Event History

Sep 14, 2026
Data Sourced
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Oct 20, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:50 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:50 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·01:17 AM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

Parent advisories

This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.

Peer vulnerabilities

Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

1

What user or system action is needed to trigger the issue?

An affected device or system must process a maliciously crafted image. The provided information does not identify a specific application, service, or delivery method.

2

What is the documented impact of successful exploitation?

Processing the crafted image may cause unexpected application termination. No other impact is stated in the provided information.

3

Which releases contain the fix?

The issue is fixed in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27.

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