Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure victim to malicious web page
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DeliveryServe crafted web content
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ExploitTrigger type confusion in WebKit engine
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ExecutionInduce unexpected engine state
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ImpactLeak limited data or crash browser
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Type safety enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the victim to process attacker-controlled web content in the WebKit-based browser engine on an affected product (Safari, visionOS, or watchOS prior to version 27) - i.e., the user must navigate to or render a malicious page (UI:R). No authentication is required (PR:N). Limiting factors: the mandatory user-interaction step means there is no fully automatic drive-by without victim action, the impact is capped at low confidentiality and low availability (no integrity impact, no indication of reliable code execution), and only pre-27 versions on the three named Apple platforms are affected - patched or auto-updated devices are not exposed. |
| Impact | Multiple signals converge on this being a MODERATE, low-urgency issue rather than a top priority. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L, base 5.4) describes a network-reachable, unauthenticated flaw that nonetheless REQUIRES user interaction (UI:R) - the victim must process maliciously crafted web content - and yields only low confidentiality and low availability impact with no integrity impact. EPSS reinforces low real-world risk: 0.16% probability at only the 5th percentile. The CVE is NOT on CISA KEV and no public POC is referenced, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis. CWE-843 (type confusion) combined with the vendor's phrasing ('logic issue addressed with improved state management', 'may lead to unexpected behavior') suggests a WebKit/Safari engine state-confusion bug whose practical impact Apple has characterized conservatively. No SSVC decision data was supplied in the input. One tension worth noting: the input Tags include 'Memory Corruption' and 'Information Disclosure', yet the official CVSS impact is only C:L/I:N/A:L and the description says merely 'unexpected behavior' - this does not read as reliable code execution or significant memory corruption, so treat the 'Memory Corruption' tag as aspirational rather than confirmed. Overall: a genuine but low-severity browser-engine bug best handled via routine patching, not emergency response. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a malicious web page (or injects crafted content into a compromised or ad-served page) that triggers a type-confusion/state-management flaw in the Safari/WebKit engine. A victim using an affected Safari, visionOS, or watchOS version visits or renders the page, causing unexpected engine behavior that may leak limited information or disrupt the browser. No public exploit code is referenced, and successful exploitation depends on the user actually loading attacker-controlled content (UI:R). |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 20, 2026
A type-confusion logic flaw (CWE-843) in Apple's WebKit rendering engine can be triggered when a user loads maliciously crafted web content, causing unexpected behavior with limited confidentiality and availability impact. The bug affects Safari, visionOS, and watchOS builds prior to version 27 on all platforms, and is fixed by the vendor's 27-series releases; exploitation requires the victim to render an attacker-controlled page (UI:R) but no credentials (PR:N). Risk is moderate and low-urgency: EPSS is 0.16% (5th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit code identified at time of analysis, and impact is capped at low confidentiality/availability with no integrity effect or confirmed reliable code execution.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to Safari 27, visionOS 27 or watchOS 27 as applicable - Apple documents the fixes in advisories https://support.apple.com/en-us/149037, https://support.apple.com/en-us/149038 and https://support.apple.com/en-us/149039. Because the vulnerability sits in the shared WebKit engine, patching the browser alone is insufficient on Apple platforms; apply the matching OS update so the system WebKit framework is replaced. Prioritize updates on devices used to browse untrusted or unsolicited links, and enable automatic updates so the 27-series build is applied without user action. Where updating must be deferred, the most effective compensating control is Apple's Lockdown Mode, which hardens WebKit by disabling the JIT and limiting risky rendering paths - at the cost of breaking some complex websites and web apps. Restricting users to a curated set of trusted sites, or routing browsing through a remote-rendering/isolation service that executes web content off-device, reduces exposure but adds latency and management overhead; disabling JavaScript entirely is the strongest browser-side mitigation but breaks most modern sites and is impractical for general users. No vendor workaround short of the 27-series update is documented, and deferring the patch leaves the full UI:R attack surface in place.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
WebKit is the browser engine shared by Safari on macOS/iOS/iPadOS, visionOS, and watchOS, so a single engine-level defect propagates across all three affected platforms. The assigned weakness, CWE-843 (Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type / type confusion), indicates that an object was handled as the wrong type during state transitions - consistent with Apple's terse 'logic issue addressed with improved state management' wording - which in a JIT-enabled JavaScript engine can corrupt object layout assumptions and produce memory-safety side effects rather than a clean functional error. The CVSS 3.1 vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L describes a network-delivered attack with low complexity that still requires the victim to process the crafted content; the resulting scope is unchanged, integrity is untouched, and confidentiality/availability impacts are only Low, so the practical outcome is unexpected behavior and possible information disclosure rather than demonstrated arbitrary code execution. Tags (Information Disclosure, Memory Corruption) align with this reading, and Apple's CPE entries confirm the exposure is version-bounded to pre-27 Safari, visionOS, and watchOS releases.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Network-reachable web content with no auth (AV:N/PR:N) but requires the victim to load a malicious page (UI:R); 'unexpected behavior' from type confusion implies only low confidentiality and availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (apple).
CVSS VectorVendor: apple
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in Safari 27, visionOS 27, watchOS 27. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to unexpected behavior.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Memory corruption occurs when a program writes data beyond the boundaries of allocated memory regions or accesses memory in unintended ways, violating the integrity of the process's address space.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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EUVD-2026-104711
GHSA-qhr9-6j48-39x4
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