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Safari EUVDEUVD-2026-60505

| CVE-2026-43795 MEDIUM
Buffer Overflow (CWE-119)
2026-08-17 apple GHSA-hrqv-8qc2-pqfm
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: apple
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Attacker crafts malicious webpage
  2. Exploit
    Victim opens page in Safari on unpatched Apple device
  3. Execution
    Malformed web content triggers memory bounds violation in WebKit
  4. Impact
    Safari process crashes unexpectedly

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, buffer size validation
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

User interaction is required - the victim must actively visit a maliciously crafted webpage in Safari (CVSS UI:R). No authentication or special privileges are required on the attacker's side (PR:N). The attack is network-delivered (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L), meaning no race conditions or specialized environment setup are needed beyond hosting the crafted content. Exploitation is limited to causing a Safari crash (A:L); the CVSS impact metrics C:N and I:N confirm no confidentiality or integrity exposure. Affected only on unpatched iOS/iPadOS prior to 18.7.10 or 26.6.1, and macOS Tahoe prior to 26.6.2. Non-Safari browsers on Apple platforms are not confirmed in scope.

Impact

The CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.3 (Medium) accurately reflects the limited real-world risk. The vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L indicates network-reachable, low-complexity exploitation requiring only user interaction (page visit), but with impact confined to a Safari process crash - no data exfiltration, no privilege escalation, no persistence. No EPSS data was provided in the source intelligence; however, absent KEV listing and absent any public proof-of-concept, probabilistic exploitation risk is expected to be low. The lack of KEV inclusion is consistent with the narrow impact class (DoS only), which rarely motivates sustained threat actor investment. There is no conflicting signal between the CVSS vector and the description - both independently indicate a remote, user-triggered, availability-only issue. Priority is low for most organizations but merits routine patch-cycle inclusion given Apple's broad consumer and enterprise footprint.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker hosts a webpage containing specially crafted web content (e.g., malformed HTML, CSS, or JavaScript) designed to trigger an out-of-bounds memory operation in WebKit. A victim on an unpatched Apple device visits the page in Safari, causing the browser to crash unexpectedly. Since no public exploit code exists, this scenario currently requires independent vulnerability research to reproduce.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.1% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 18, 2026

Safari on Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Tahoe crashes unexpectedly when processing maliciously crafted web content due to a memory handling flaw classified under CWE-119 (improper restriction of buffer operations). Affected platforms span iOS and iPadOS prior to versions 18.7.10 and 26.6.1, as well as macOS Tahoe prior to 26.6.2. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this availability-only denial-of-service by inducing a victim to visit a crafted webpage; no confidentiality or integrity impact is indicated by the CVSS vector. No public exploit code exists and this vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patches are available. Users should update 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 via the standard Apple Software Update mechanism. Advisory details are at https://support.apple.com/en-us/148281 (iOS/iPadOS 18.7.10), https://support.apple.com/en-us/148282 (iOS/iPadOS 26.6.1), and https://support.apple.com/en-us/148287 (macOS Tahoe 26.6.2). For environments where immediate patching is infeasible, a compensating control would be to restrict or monitor access to untrusted web content - for example, through enterprise MDM policies disabling Safari or enforcing content filtering - though this trades functionality for risk reduction. No workarounds are documented by the vendor.

Affected VersionsENISA

iOS and iPadOS 0 <18.7.10
macOS 0 <26.6.2
iOS and iPadOS 0 <26.6.1

Affected Packages

euvd ios_and_ipados fix: 18.7.10, 26.6.1
euvd macos fix: 26.6.2

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 2 packages in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause is CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer - commonly manifesting as a buffer overflow or out-of-bounds memory access. Apple's fix description ('improved memory handling') is consistent with a bounds-checking defect in WebKit, the browser engine underlying Safari on all Apple platforms. WebKit's web content parsing pipeline processes complex, attacker-controlled input (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or media), making it a historically rich target surface for memory safety issues. CPE strings confirm the affected components as apple:ios_and_ipados and apple:macos, meaning all device classes running those OSes are in scope. The crash-only impact (A:L, C:N, I:N) suggests the memory corruption does not reach a point of attacker-controlled code execution in this variant, likely due to existing exploit mitigations (ASLR, PAC on Apple Silicon) containing the blast radius to a process abort.

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Severity by source

Vendor (apple) PRIMARY 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
vuln.today AI 4.3 MEDIUM

Network-delivered via webpage (AV:N), requires victim page visit (UI:R), no auth needed (PR:N), impact is crash only with no confidentiality or integrity exposure (C:N/I:N/A:L).

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE MEDIUM
Red Hat 8.8 HIGH

Primary rating from Vendor (apple).

CVSS VectorVendor: apple

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Lifecycle Timeline

4
CVSS changed
Aug 18, 2026 - 14:22 NVD
4.3 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
Aug 17, 2026 - 22:03 EUVD
CVE Published
Aug 17, 2026 - 21:31 cve.org
MEDIUM 4.3
CVE Published
Aug 17, 2026 - 21:31 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. 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.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 96% exploitable
Prevalence
High
iOS and macOS deployed on hundreds of millions of consumer and enterprise devices.
Social Media
1
Sightings
Data Quality
7 sources
Confidence: High
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment Vendor CIRCL VulDB

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.1%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

22
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +22
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 Affected
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