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Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’

SecurityWeek

· September 29, 2026

AI summary

Apple has released updates for iOS and macOS to fix a zero-day vulnerability. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-86950 and was reported by Meta. It is linked to an extremely sophisticated attack.

Vulnerabilities mentioned

CVE-2026-86950

HIGH

CVSS 8.8

An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.7.1 and iPadOS 26.7.1, macOS Sequoia 15.8.1, macOS Tahoe 26.7.1. Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 27.

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