Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessDeliver malicious app to device
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ExploitApp runs with low privileges
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ExecutionAbuse permissions gap
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ImpactRead sensitive user data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Least privilege enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires a locally installed, running application on the affected Apple device (AV:L, PR:L) - the attacker must first get a malicious or compromised app onto the victim's iOS/iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, or watchOS device (e.g., via the App Store, sideloading, or enterprise/MDM distribution). No additional user interaction is needed once the app runs (UI:N). Exploitation is LIMITED to devices below version 27 of the respective OS; it does not affect visionOS (absent from CPE and EUVD). The flaw is a permissions/authorization gap that lets the app read sensitive user data it should be denied; there is no remote or network exploitation path. |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate real-world priority despite the 5.5 (MEDIUM) CVSS. Every attack-vector signal points to constrained, local exploitation: the vendor vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N requires a malicious app already running locally with low privileges, and the impact is confidentiality-only (C:H, I:N, A:N) - the app reads sensitive user data but gains no code execution, integrity, or availability impact. Corroborating this, EPSS is very low at 0.16% (6th percentile), there is NO CISA KEV listing, and no public POC was identified. There is no SSVC data provided. Note a labeling conflict: the input Tags mark this 'Privilege Escalation' and the CWE is CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management), but the actual described impact and CVSS (C:H/I:N/A:N, S:U) is a confidentiality-only information-disclosure - not a true privilege escalation with integrity/availability gain; treat the 'Privilege Escalation' framing with skepticism. Overall: a genuine but low-urgency data-access flaw, best handled via routine patching to OS version 27, not emergency response. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A user installs a seemingly benign app from the App Store or via sideloading/enterprise distribution. Because of an insufficient permissions restriction, that app - running with normal low privileges and no additional user interaction - reads sensitive user data it should not have access to. No public exploit code exists at time of analysis, and exploitation requires the attacker to first get their app onto the victim's device. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 17, 2026
Locally installed applications on Apple iOS/iPadOS, macOS Golden Gate, tvOS, and watchOS releases prior to version 27 can bypass intended permission restrictions and read sensitive user data they should be denied. Exploitation requires a malicious or compromised app already running on the device (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N, 5.5 MEDIUM) - there is no network-reachable path, so an attacker must first deliver an app through the App Store, sideloading, or enterprise/MDM distribution, after which no further user interaction is needed. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the EPSS score is 0.16% (6th percentile); Apple has shipped fixes in the version 27 releases across all four affected platforms, so exposure is limited to unpatched devices below version 27.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27, tvOS 27, and watchOS 27 respectively, which are the versions Apple documents as resolving the permissions issue (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/149034, https://support.apple.com/en-us/149035, https://support.apple.com/en-us/149036, and https://support.apple.com/en-us/149037); there is no interim vendor-provided workaround because the fix hardens the underlying permission enforcement itself. Until devices are updated, the practical compensating control is reducing the chance that a hostile app ever runs on the device, since exploitation is strictly local (AV:L, PR:L) and needs an installed, running application: tighten MDM configuration profiles to an allowlist of vetted App Store applications, disable or strictly govern sideloading, ad-hoc/enterprise app distribution and untrusted developer certificates, and remove unused or unvetted apps from managed fleets - the trade-off is reduced flexibility for internal test and line-of-business app deployment. Administrators can also audit app entitlements and privacy permissions (TCC on macOS, the per-app privacy controls on iOS/iPadOS) to shrink the data an installed app can already reach, though this narrows data exposure rather than eliminating the authorization gap and may break legitimate workflows. Because there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is only 0.16%, patch deployment can follow a normal, risk-ranked maintenance cycle rather than emergency change procedures, prioritizing devices that hold or access the most sensitive user data.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a permissions/authorization gap classified as CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management), and Apple describes it as a permissions issue addressed with additional restrictions - meaning the operating system failed to enforce an access-control check that should have kept one component within its granted scope. Apple platforms rely on layered isolation mechanisms (the application sandbox, code-signing entitlements, and privacy controls such as TCC on macOS and the iOS/iPadOS privacy permission model) to constrain what an app may read; a weakness in that enforcement lets a running app reach sensitive user data outside its intended container or entitlement set. Because the impact is confidentiality-only (C:H with I:N and A:N) and local in vector (AV:L, PR:L, UI:N), this is a data-disclosure problem rather than a code-execution, persistence, or denial-of-service primitive, and it cannot be triggered remotely over the network. The affected CPE definitions cover the broad Apple OS families - cpe:2.3:a:apple:ios_and_ipados, apple:macos, apple:tvos, and apple:watchos - with fixes landing in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27, tvOS 27, and watchOS 27; visionOS is absent from both the CPE list and the EUVD affected-version data, so it does not appear to be in scope.
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AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Local malicious app with low privileges and no user interaction reads sensitive data; confidentiality-only impact with no integrity or availability effect and no scope change.
Primary rating from Vendor (apple).
CVSS VectorVendor: apple
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27. An app may be able to access sensitive user data.
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Attack Technique
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