CVE-2026-28981 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6. Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Apple	Macos

No data.

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067
https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071
https://support.apple.com/en-us/128072

History

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		Arbitrary Code Execution via Buffer Overflow in macOS Image Processing

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-120
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Apple Apple macos
Vendors & Products		Apple Apple macos

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6. Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution.
References		https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067 https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071 https://support.apple.com/en-us/128072

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2026-07-27T20:12:24.059Z

Updated: 2026-07-29T03:55:27.560Z

Reserved: 2026-03-03T16:36:03.993Z

Link: CVE-2026-28981

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-28T14:14:37.387Z

NVD

No data.

Redhat

No data.

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