Root Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Apple macOS Products
CVE-2026-64701

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Apple
Status: Mac OS
Vendor: CVE Published:; 14 September 2026

What is CVE-2026-64701?

A permissions issue has been identified in certain versions of macOS that could allow a malicious application to gain root privileges. This vulnerability has been addressed with additional restrictions in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8 and macOS Tahoe 26.6. Users are strongly urged to update their systems to mitigate potential threats associated with this issue.

Affected Version(s)

macOS 0 < 15.7.8

macOS 0 < 26.6

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067

https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071

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Timeline

Vulnerability published
Sep 14, 2026
Vulnerability Reserved
Jul 20, 2026

CVE-2026-64701 Data

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