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Sandbox escape in Apple App Intents

IdentifiersCVE-2026-28995CWE-693

CVE-2026-28995 is a sandbox escape vulnerability in Apple App Intents. Apple describes the issue as a logic flaw that was addressed with improved restrictions. Successful exploitation may allow a malicious application to break out of the normal app sandbox boundary. The issue affects multiple Apple platforms, including iOS 18.7.9 and iPadOS 18.7.9, iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5, macOS Tahoe 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and watchOS 26.5.

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Impact

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A successful exploit may allow a malicious app to escape its sandbox and access resources or capabilities outside the restrictions normally enforced on third-party applications. This weakens a core platform isolation boundary and could enable follow-on actions such as unauthorized access to data or services otherwise unavailable to the app, depending on the target platform and surrounding permissions.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate patching is not possible, reduce exposure by limiting installation and execution of untrusted or unnecessary applications, especially sideloaded, enterprise-signed, developer-signed, or otherwise non-vetted apps. Enforce application allowlisting and mobile device management controls where available. These are only partial mitigations; the primary mitigation is installing Apple's security updates.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Apply the vendor fixes released by Apple. Apple states the issue is fixed in iOS 18.7.9 and iPadOS 18.7.9, iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5, macOS Tahoe 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and watchOS 26.5. Upgrade affected devices to the relevant patched OS release or later.
PUBLIC EXPLOITS

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Affected products & vendors

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VendorProductType
AppleIpadosoperating_system
AppleIphone Osoperating_system
AppleMacosoperating_system
AppleTvosoperating_system
AppleVisionosoperating_system
AppleWatchosoperating_system

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Associated malware

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Detection signatures

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Vendor-by-vendor mapping

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Social activity4

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