VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2026-28872
A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.46%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.46%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A resource exhaustion issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 18.7.9 and iPadOS 18.7.9, iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4. A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial-of-service.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.46% probability · 39th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- apple/ipados · apple/iphone os
- Source
- product-security@apple.com
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/126792Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/127111Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.