A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, macOS Tahoe 26.6. An app may be able to gain root privileges.
CVE-2026-43693
Score 7.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-27. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 7.0; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.0
- EG Score
- 7.0(high)
- EG Risk
- 32(Track)EG Risk 32/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity70% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 27, 2026
Last Modified
July 29, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Jul 27, 2026About the security content of macOS Sonoma 14.8.8 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/128072About the security content of macOS Sequoia 15.7.8 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/128071About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-43693(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 16× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-29 16:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-29 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-29 03:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-28 16:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-28 16:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-28 15:36 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-28 05:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-28 04:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-28 04:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-27 22:25 UTCEG score recompute▲ 7.00
- 2026-07-27 22:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-27 22:21 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-07-27 21:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-27 21:19 UTCNVD update
- 2026-07-27 20:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 20:24 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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