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CVE-2026-113942 — Apple MACOS

HIGH

CVE-2026-113942 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.1) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in apple macos. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27.2. An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory.

Published
Updated
Affected
1 product
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 1, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs10th percentile — riskier than 10% of all scored CVEsHighest risk

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Description

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27.2. An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory.

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
OS
macosapple
≥ 27.0 && < 27.2
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

  1. Detect

    Inventory every apple macos deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

  2. Fix

    Apply the apple macos security patch or hotfix for CVE-2026-113942 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.

  3. Workarounds

    Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27.2. An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory.
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CVE-2026-113942: Apple MACOS (High 7.1)