CVE-2026-43766 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6. An attacker with physical access to a locked device may be able to view sensitive user information.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Physical

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		Physical Access Authorization Flaw Exposes Sensitive User Data on macOS
Weaknesses		CWE-284 CWE-287
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:45:00 +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		An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6. An attacker with physical access to a locked device may be able to view sensitive user information.
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: 2026-07-27T20:13:41.215Z

Updated: 2026-07-28T15:54:54.090Z

Reserved: 2026-05-01T22:46:27.817Z

Link: CVE-2026-43766

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-28T15:54:12.061Z

NVD

No data.

Redhat

No data.

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