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Posted on 25 March 2026
Apple Security-announceAPPLE-SA-03-24-2026-1 iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4
iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/126792.
Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.
802.1X
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to
intercept network traffic
Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state
management.
CVE-2026-28865: H=C3=A9lo=C3=AFse Gollier and Mathy Vanhoef (KU Leuven)
Accounts
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state
management.
CVE-2026-28877: Rosyna Keller of Totally Not Malicious Software
App Protection
Available for: iPhone 11 and later
Impact: An attacker with physical access to an iOS device with Stolen
Device Protection enabled may be able to access biometrics-gated
Protected Apps with the passcode
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-28895: Zack Tickman
Audio
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an
unexpected process crash
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory
management.
CVE-2026-28879: Justin Cohen of Google
Audio
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory
handling.
CVE-2026-28822: Jex Amro
Baseband
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: A remote attacker may cause an unexpected app termination
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-28874: Hazem Issa, Tuan D. Hoang, and Yongdae Kim @ SysSec,
KAIST
Baseband
Available for: iPhone 16e
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds
checking.
CVE-2026-28875: Tuan D. Hoang and Yongdae Kim @ KAIST SysSec Lab
Calling Framework
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: A denial-of-service issue was addressed with improved input
validation.
CVE-2026-28894: an anonymous researcher
Clipboard
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: This issue was addressed with improved validation of
symlinks.
CVE-2026-28866: Cristian Dinca (icmd.tech)
CoreMedia
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: Processing an audio stream in a maliciously crafted media file
may terminate the process
Description: An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved
bounds checking.
CVE-2026-20690: Hossein Lotfi (@hosselot) of Trend Micro Zero Day
Initiative
CoreUtils
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: A user in a privileged network position may be able to cause a
denial-of-service
Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved
input validation.
CVE-2026-28886: Etienne Charron (Renault) and Victoria Martini (Renault)
Crash Reporter
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to enumerate a user's installed apps
Description: A privacy issue was addressed by removing sensitive data.
CVE-2026-28878: Zhongcheng Li from IES Red Team
curl
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An issue existed in curl which may result in unintentionally
sending sensitive information via an incorrect connection
Description: This is a vulnerability in open source code and Apple
Software is among the affected projects. The CVE-ID was assigned by a
third party. Learn more about the issue and CVE-ID at cve.org.
CVE-2025-14524
DeviceLink
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was
addressed with improved path validation.
CVE-2026-28876: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs
GeoServices
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An information leakage was addressed with additional
validation.
CVE-2026-28870: XiguaSec
iCloud
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to enumerate a user's installed apps
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional
restrictions.
CVE-2026-28880: Zhongcheng Li from IES Red Team
CVE-2026-28833: Zhongcheng Li from IES Red Team
ImageIO
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app
termination
Description: This is a vulnerability in open source code and Apple
Software is among the affected projects. The CVE-ID was assigned by a
third party. Learn more about the issue and CVE-ID at cve.org.
CVE-2025-64505
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory
Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.
CVE-2026-28868: =EC=9D=B4=EB=8F=99=ED=95=98 (Lee Dong Ha of BoB 0xB6)
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to leak sensitive kernel state
Description: This issue was addressed with improved authentication.
CVE-2026-28867: Jian Lee (@speedyfriend433)
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or
corrupt kernel memory
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2026-20698: DARKNAVY (@DarkNavyOrg)
Kernel
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or
write kernel memory
Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory
management.
CVE-2026-20687: Johnny Franks (@zeroxjf)
libxpc
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to enumerate a user's installed apps
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2026-28882: Ilias Morad (A2nkF) of Voynich Group, Duy Tr=E1=BA=A7n
(@khanhduytran0), @hugeBlack
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: "Hide IP Address" and "Block All Remote Content" may not apply
to all mail content
Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved handling of
user preferences.
CVE-2026-20692: Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of Nosebeard Labs
Printing
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved
validation.
CVE-2026-20688: wdszzml and Atuin Automated Vulnerability Discovery
Engine
Sandbox Profiles
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to fingerprint the user
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional
restrictions.
CVE-2026-28863: Gongyu Ma (@Mezone0)
Security
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: A local attacker may gain access to user's Keychain items
Description: This issue was addressed with improved permissions
checking.
CVE-2026-28864: Alex Radocea
Siri
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An attacker with physical access to a locked device may be able
to view sensitive user information
Description: The issue was addressed with improved authentication.
CVE-2026-28856: an anonymous researcher
Telephony
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause unexpected system termination
or corrupt kernel memory
Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds
checking.
CVE-2026-28858: Hazem Issa and Yongdae Kim @ SysSec, KAIST
UIFoundation
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service
Description: A stack overflow was addressed with improved input
validation.
CVE-2026-28852: Caspian Tarafdar
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content
Security Policy from being enforced
Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 304951
CVE-2026-20665: webb
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may bypass Same
Origin Policy
Description: A cross-origin issue in the Navigation API was addressed
with improved input validation.
WebKit Bugzilla: 306050
CVE-2026-20643: Thomas Espach
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to a cross-site
scripting attack
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
WebKit Bugzilla: 305859
CVE-2026-28871: @hamayanhamayan
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an
unexpected process crash
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 306136
CVE-2026-20664: Daniel Rhea, S=C3=B6hnke Benedikt Fischedick (Tripton),
Emrovsky & Switch, Yevhen Pervushyn
WebKit Bugzilla: 307723
CVE-2026-28857: Narcis Oliveras Font=C3=A0s, S=C3=B6hnke Benedikt =Fischedick
(Tripton), Daniel Rhea, Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: A malicious website may be able to access script message
handlers intended for other origins
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 307014
CVE-2026-28861: Hongze Wu and Shuaike Dong from Ant Group Infrastructure
Security Team
WebKit
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: A malicious website may be able to process restricted web
content outside the sandbox
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 308248
CVE-2026-28859: greenbynox, Arni Hardarson
WebKit Sandboxing
Available for: iPhone 11 and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation
and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd
generation and later, iPad 8th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th
generation and later
Impact: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the
user
Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state
management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 306827
CVE-2026-20691: Gongyu Ma (@Mezone0)
Additional recognition
Accessibility
We would like to acknowledge Abhay Kailasia (@abhay_kailasia) from
Safran Mumbai India, Jacob Prezant (prezant.us) for their assistance.
AirPort
We would like to acknowledge Yashar Shahinzadeh, Saman Ebrahimnezhad,
Amir Safari, Omid Rezaii for their assistance.
App Protection
We would like to acknowledge Andr.Ess for their assistance.
Bluetooth
We would like to acknowledge Hamid Mahmoud for their assistance.
Captive Network
We would like to acknowledge Kun Peeks (@SwayZGl1tZyyy) for their
assistance.
CipherML
We would like to acknowledge Nils Hanff (@nils1729@chaos.social) of
Hasso Plattner Institute for their assistance.
CloudAttestation
We would like to acknowledge Suresh Sundaram, Willard Jansen for their
assistance.
CoreUI
We would like to acknowledge Peter Malone for their assistance.
Find My
We would like to acknowledge Salemdomain for their assistance.
GPU Drivers
We would like to acknowledge Jian Lee (@speedyfriend433) for their
assistance.
ICU
We would like to acknowledge Jian Lee (@speedyfriend433) for their
assistance.
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge DARKNAVY (@DarkNavyOrg), Kylian Boulard De
Pouqueville =46rom Fuzzinglabs, Patrick Ventuzelo =46rom Fuzzinglabs, =Robert
Tran, Suresh Sundaram for their assistance.
libarchive
We would like to acknowledge Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg of
Nosebeard Labs, Arni Hardarson for their assistance.
libc
We would like to acknowledge Vitaly Simonovich for their assistance.
Libnotify
We would like to acknowledge Ilias Morad (@A2nkF_) for their assistance.
LLVM
We would like to acknowledge Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon) for their
assistance.
mDNSResponder
We would like to acknowledge William Mather for their assistance.
Messages
We would like to acknowledge JZ for their assistance.
MobileInstallation
We would like to acknowledge Gongyu Ma (@Mezone0) for their assistance.
Music
We would like to acknowledge Mohammad Kaif (@_mkahmad | kaif0x01) for
their assistance.
NetworkExtension
We would like to acknowledge Jianfeng Chen from yq12260 of Intretech for
their assistance.
Notes
We would like to acknowledge Dawuge of Shuffle Team and Hunan University
for their assistance.
Notifications
We would like to acknowledge Abhay Kailasia (@abhay_kailasia) of Lakshmi
Narain College of Technology Bhopal India for their assistance.
ppp
We would like to acknowledge Dave G. for their assistance.
Quick Look
We would like to acknowledge Wojciech Regula of SecuRing
(wojciechregula.blog), an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Safari
We would like to acknowledge @RenwaX23, Bikesh Parajuli, Farras Givari,
Syarif Muhammad Sajjad, Yair for their assistance.
Safari Private Browsing
We would like to acknowledge Jaime Gallego Matud for their assistance.
Shortcuts
We would like to acknowledge Waleed Barakat (@WilDN00B) and Paul
Montgomery (@nullevent) for their assistance.
Siri
We would like to acknowledge Anand Mallaya, Tech consultant, Anand
Mallaya and Co., Harsh Kirdolia, Hrishikesh Parmar of Self-Employed for
their assistance.
Spotlight
We would like to acknowledge Bilge Kaan M=C4=B1zrak, Claude & Friends: =Risk
Analytics Research Group, Zack Tickman for their assistance.
Status Bar
We would like to acknowledge Sahel Alemi for their assistance.
Telephony
We would like to acknowledge Xue Zhang, Yi Chen for their assistance.
Time Zone
We would like to acknowledge Abhay Kailasia (@abhay_kailasia) from
Safran Mumbai India for their assistance.
UIKit
We would like to acknowledge AEC, Abhay Kailasia (@abhay_kailasia) from
Safran Mumbai India, Ben Gallagher, Bishal Kafle (@whoisbishal.k),
Carlos Luna (U.S. Department of the Navy), Dalibor Milanovic, Daren
Goodchild, JS De Mattei, Maxwell Garn, Zack Tickman, fuyuu12,
incredincomp for their assistance.
Wallet
We would like to acknowledge Zhongcheng Li from IES Red Team of
ByteDance for their assistance.
Web Extensions
We would like to acknowledge Carlos Jeurissen, Rob Wu (robwu.nl) for
their assistance.
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge Vamshi Paili, greenbynox, and an anonymous
researcher for their assistance.
WebKit Process Model
We would like to acknowledge Joseph Semaan for their assistance.
Wi-Fi
We would like to acknowledge Kun Peeks (@SwayZGl1tZyyy), an anonymous
researcher for their assistance.
Wi-Fi Connectivity
We would like to acknowledge Alex Radocea of Supernetworks, Inc for
their assistance.
Widgets
We would like to acknowledge Marcel Vo=C3=9F, Mitul Pranjay, Serok ==C3=87elik for
their assistance.
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