A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Tahoe 26.6. A malicious app may be able to gain root privileges.

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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:30:00 +0000

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Title Race Condition Enabling Root Privilege Escalation in macOS

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First Time appeared Apple
Apple macos
Vendors & Products Apple
Apple macos

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Weaknesses CWE-362
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in macOS Tahoe 26.6. A malicious app may be able to gain root privileges.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-15T03:56:23.998Z

Reserved: 2026-05-01T22:46:27.819Z

Link: CVE-2026-43783

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-14T22:28:20.948Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-14T21:17:11.080

Modified: 2026-09-15T04:18:06.830

Link: CVE-2026-43783

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-15T08:15:13Z

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