This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Golden Gate 27. An app may be able to gain root privileges.
CVE-2026-84631
Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-14. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 7.8; 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
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8(high)
- EG Risk
- 35(Track)EG Risk 35/100SSVC: 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 computedSeverity78% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 14, 2026
Last Modified
September 15, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Sep 14, 2026About the security content of macOS Golden Gate 27 - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/149035Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-84631(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 27× in last 7d / 27× 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.
- 2026-09-19 08:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 21:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 21:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 10:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 00:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 00:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-17 19:32 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-17 13:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-17 02:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-16 15:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-16 15:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-16 14:09 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 04:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-15 17:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-15 14:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-15 04:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-15 04:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-15 04:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-14 23:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-14 22:35 UTCEG score recompute▲ 7.80
- 2026-09-14 22:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-14 22:34 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.8 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-09-14 21:22 UTCNVD update
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- 2026-09-14 20:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-14 20:54 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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