Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAttacker hosts malicious webpage
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DeliveryUser clicks link or is redirected
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ExploitSafari loads crafted web content
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ExecutionWebKit state management flaw triggered
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ImpactSafari process crashes unexpectedly
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires that a user actively process malicious web content - meaning the user must navigate to or load an attacker-controlled page in Safari (UI:R per CVSS vector). No authentication is required on the attacker's side, and no special server-side configuration is needed beyond serving the crafted content. The impact is strictly limited to an unexpected Safari crash (availability only, A:L); there is no confidentiality or integrity impact per the CVSS vector. Exploitation is constrained by: mandatory user interaction (must visit the malicious page), impact limited to a process crash rather than code execution, and the flaw affecting only Apple's WebKit-based browsers (Safari on iOS/iPadOS/macOS Tahoe) rather than third-party browsers. |
| Impact | The real-world risk is low-to-moderate and significantly below what the network-accessible vector might initially suggest. CVSS 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L) reflects a remote, unauthenticated denial-of-service requiring user interaction - limited to a browser crash with no confidentiality or integrity impact. EPSS at 0.14% (4th percentile) indicates very low probability of near-term automated exploitation. The vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, and no POC has been identified, further depressing urgency. The primary real-world scenario is targeted nuisance attacks or drive-by DoS campaigns; even a mid-sized IT team in kielce managing a shared device fleet would find this disruptive but not catastrophic absent privilege escalation or data exposure. The patch is already available across all affected platforms, making remediation straightforward and reducing residual risk substantially for patched environments. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker hosts a webpage containing specially crafted web content designed to trigger the state management flaw in WebKit. A user on an unpatched Apple device visits the page - whether via a phishing link, malicious advertisement, or redirected URL - causing Safari to crash and terminate unexpectedly. No public proof-of-concept exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the attack produces only a browser crash with no code execution or data access. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 18, 2026
Safari on Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Tahoe crashes unexpectedly when processing maliciously crafted web content due to a state management flaw in WebKit. Affected are all iOS and iPadOS versions prior to 18.7.10 and 26.6.1, and macOS Tahoe prior to 26.6.2. An attacker can trigger a denial-of-service condition by luring a user to visit a malicious webpage, causing the browser to crash; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS sits at the 4th percentile, indicating very low observed exploitation probability.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to iOS 18.7.10 or iPadOS 18.7.10 (legacy branch), iOS 26.6.1 or iPadOS 26.6.1 (current branch), or macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 - all available via the standard Apple software update mechanism. Apple advisory references are https://support.apple.com/en-us/148281, https://support.apple.com/en-us/148282, and https://support.apple.com/en-us/148287. For environments where immediate patching is not possible, a compensating control is to restrict access to untrusted web content via corporate content filtering or MDM-enforced web category blocking; this reduces exposure but does not eliminate it for managed browser sessions. No feature-disable workaround for the specific state management flaw has been disclosed by Apple.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability resides in WebKit, Apple's browser engine underlying Safari on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The root cause is classified as CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation), manifesting specifically as a state management defect - the engine fails to correctly track or transition internal processing state when parsing certain web content, leading to an unhandled condition that terminates the Safari process. CPE strings confirm affected components are cpe:2.3:a:apple:ios_and_ipados and cpe:2.3:a:apple:macos. Apple's advisory language 'improved state management' is consistent with a use-after-free, race condition, or object lifecycle error within the HTML/JS rendering pipeline, though the exact sub-mechanism is not publicly disclosed.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Network-delivered via crafted web content, no privileges needed, user must load page; impact is browser crash only, no confidentiality or integrity loss.
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CVSS VectorVendor: apple
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
This issue was addressed through improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.7.10, iOS 26.6.1 and iPadOS 26.6.1, macOS Tahoe 26.6.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash.
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SUSE
Severity: Moderate| Product | Status |
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| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | Affected |
| SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP2 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP3 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | Affected |
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