CVE-2019-8526

What is affected

Vendor	Apple
Product	macOS
Weakness	CWE-416

The vulnerability

Apple macOS contains a use-after-free vulnerability that could allow for privilege escalation.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 8 May 2023 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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