This issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.5.2 and iPadOS 26.5.2, macOS Tahoe 26.5.2. An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory.
CVE-2026-39868
Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-06-29. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 9.1
- EG Score
- 9.1(high)
- EPSS
- 29.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 29, 2026
Last Modified
June 30, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jun 30, 2026About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/127595About the security content of iOS 26.5.2 and iPadOS 26.5.2 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/127594Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-39868(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 65× in last 7d / 68× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-07 05:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-07 05:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-07 01:20 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-06 21:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 21:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 17:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 17:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 13:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 13:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 09:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 09:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 05:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 05:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 01:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 01:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 21:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 21:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 17:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 17:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 13:45 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-05 13:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 09:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 09:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 05:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 05:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 01:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 01:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 21:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 21:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 17:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 17:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 14:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 14:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 10:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 10:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 06:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 06:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 02:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 02:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 22:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 22:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 18:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 18:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 14:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 14:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 10:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 10:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 06:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 06:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-03 02:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 02:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 22:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 22:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 18:33 UTCEG score recompute▲ 9.10
- 2026-07-02 18:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 14:32 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 9.1 · severity → CRITICAL
- 2026-06-29 21:26 UTCNVD update
- 2026-06-29 20:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-29 20:17 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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