CVE-2026-84534: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.7 and iPadOS 26.7, iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27, macOS Sequoia 15.8, macOS Tahoe 26.7, visionOS 27. Extracting a maliciously crafted archive may allow an attacker to write arbitrary files.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 27.0 (fixed in 27.0)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 27.0 (fixed in 27.0)
• Apple macOS: from 15.0, before 15.8 (fixed in 15.8); from 26.0, before 26.7 (fixed in 26.7)
• Apple visionOS: before 27.0 (fixed in 27.0)

Published 2026-09-14. Last modified 2026-09-16.