Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAttacker publishes/sideloads malicious app
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DeliveryUser installs and runs app
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ExploitApp triggers authorization state flaw
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ExecutionApp reads sensitive user data
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ImpactExfiltrate off device
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization verification
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires a malicious or compromised app already installed and running on the affected device (AV:L, PR:L) on a version prior to iOS/iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, or watchOS 27. No user interaction beyond running the app (UI:N), and no network exposure. macOS is explicitly not listed as affected. Exploitation is limited by Apple's app distribution, sandboxing, and code-signing controls, which raise the bar for getting hostile code onto the device in the first place; there is no remote or unauthenticated path. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue despite the medium 5.5 CVSS. The vendor vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N is internally consistent with the description: a locally-installed app (AV:L, PR:L) accesses sensitive user data with no integrity or availability impact (confidentiality-only). All exploitation signals point down: EPSS is 0.16% (6th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC is identified. There is no conflict between the CVSS vector and the description - both describe a local, low-privilege, on-device app reaching data it should not. The real limiting factor is the delivery gate: an attacker must first get a malicious or compromised app running on the victim's device, which on Apple's sandboxed/notarized platforms is a meaningful barrier. Net: real but low urgency - patch in the normal Apple OS update cycle, not an emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A user installs a malicious or over-privileged app from a sideloaded source or the App Store. Because of an authorization/state-management flaw, that app bypasses the intended access checks and reads sensitive user data (e.g., data belonging to other apps or the user's private information) without a prompt or entitlement it should require. Exploitation is entirely local; no public exploit code is known. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 17, 2026
Improper authorization in Apple's mobile and wearable operating systems - iOS and iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS - lets an app that is already installed and running on the device reach sensitive user data it should not be able to see. The flaw stems from weak state management in an authorization check (CWE-285) and is fixed in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27. Exploitation requires a malicious or compromised app already resident on the device (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/PR:L/UI:N, 5.5), so it is bounded by Apple's App Store review, sandboxing, and code-signing controls; there is no remote or unauthenticated path, macOS is not affected, EPSS sits at 0.16% (6th percentile), and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis. This is a genuinely low-priority issue despite its medium CVSS score.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: update to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27, as documented in Apple's advisories at https://support.apple.com/en-us/149034, https://support.apple.com/en-us/149036, https://support.apple.com/en-us/149037, and https://support.apple.com/en-us/149038. Because the attack requires a malicious or compromised app already installed and running on the device, the most effective compensating control on devices that cannot yet be updated is strict app-vetting hygiene: restrict installations to trusted, reviewed sources, avoid sideloaded or enterprise-signed builds of unknown provenance, and remove unneeded or untrusted apps - the trade-off being reduced flexibility for legitimate internal or third-party software. Managed fleets can further raise the bar through MDM-enforced App Store-only install policies and by removing profiles that permit ad-hoc distribution, at the cost of blocking legitimate developer and enterprise workflows. There is no configuration toggle or service that can simply be disabled to close this authorization gap, and no network-side mitigation applies since the issue is entirely local; the only complete fix is upgrading to the patched OS versions, and devices that cannot reach version 27 should be treated as carrying residual, low-severity exposure rather than as fully mitigated.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is an authorization weakness classified as CWE-285 (Improper Authorization): a state-management defect in the check that decides whether a calling process is permitted to reach a protected resource, allowing that check to be satisfied when it should not be. Apple addressed it through improved state management rather than by adding a new permission boundary. The affected components are identified by CPE entries for cpe:2.3:a:apple:ios_and_ipados, cpe:2.3:a:apple:tvos, cpe:2.3:a:apple:visionos, and cpe:2.3:a:apple:watchos, all at versions below 27. Because the vulnerable surface is a locally installed application interacting with platform services, exploitation remains confined by the iOS-family security model - the app sandbox, entitlements, App Store distribution and notarization, and code-signing enforcement - which must be defeated or bypassed before a hostile app can be present at all. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N reflects a local, authenticated/local-privileged attacker with no user interaction, high confidentiality impact, and no integrity or availability impact; there is no network attack vector and no unauthenticated path, so the practical reach of the bug is limited to data that a sandboxed app should not have been able to read.
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AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Local malicious app (AV:L, PR:L) with no interaction reads sensitive data - confidentiality-only, so I:N/A:N; agrees with the vendor vector.
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CVSS VectorVendor: apple
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, watchOS 27. An app may be able to access sensitive user data.
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