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Vulnerability · Published Mar 25, 2026 · Assigned by apple

CVE-2026-28859

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity use-after-free in iOS and iPadOS from Apple. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 52% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 48.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.4, iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4, macOS Tahoe 26.4, tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, watchOS 26.4. A malicious website may be able to process restricted web content outside the sandbox.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk32.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk32.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk32.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-devel2.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-devel2.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-devel2.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-jsc2.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc2.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc2.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
Debian:12webkit2gtkno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-28859
Debian:13webkit2gtk2.52.3-2~deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28859
Debian:14webkit2gtk2.52.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28859
Debian:12wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-28859
Debian:13wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2026-28859
Debian:14wpewebkit2.52.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28859
Rocky Linux:8webkit2gtk30:2.52.3-1.el8_10RLSA-2026:10702
Rocky Linux:9webkit2gtk30:2.52.3-0.el9_7.1RLSA-2026:9692
Rocky Linux:9webkit2gtk30:2.52.3-1.el9_8RLSA-2026:19206
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSqtwebkit-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-28859
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSqtwebkit-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-28859
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwebkit2gtkno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-28859
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSwebkit2gtk2.52.3-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2026-28859
Ubuntu:25.10webkit2gtk2.52.3-0ubuntu0.25.10.1UBUNTU-CVE-2026-28859
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSwebkit2gtk2.52.3-0ubuntu0.26.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2026-28859
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwpewebkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-28859

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Apple Safari 0 – before 26.4
Apple iOS and iPadOS 0 – before 26.4
Apple macOS 0 – before 26.4
Apple tvOS 0 – before 26.4
Apple visionOS 0 – before 26.4
Apple watchOS 0 – before 26.4

Weakness: CWE-416, CWE-125, CWE-787, CWE-120 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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