CVE-2026-28982 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6. A remote user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

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

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		macOS Kernel Race Condition Causing Memory Corruption and System Crash

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-362
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:45:00 +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 race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6. A remote user may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory.
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: 2026-07-27T20:14:28.251Z

Updated: 2026-07-28T15:43:55.453Z

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

Link: CVE-2026-28982

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-28T15:43:51.626Z

NVD

No data.

Redhat

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