CVE-2026-64778

Overview

Impact:

Description: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may leak sensitive data

Researchers: Mohit Negi

Background

Advisory: Apple Security Advisory

Fix not public. The WebKit fix for this bug is embargoed or not yet disclosed. The bug ID is confirmed from the Apple advisory, but no public commit references it.

Root Cause Analysis

The issue was addressed with improved checks.

Audit Directions

When auditing for this vulnerability, focus on: (1) similar patterns in the patched functions and nearby code, (2) missing or insufficient bounds checks on user-controlled input, (3) unvalidated type conversions and pointer arithmetic, (4) edge cases not exercised by tests, and (5) copy-paste variants of the vulnerable logic elsewhere.