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CVE-2026-20676 — This issue was addressed through improved state management

Medium CVSS 5.3

This issue was addressed through improved state management. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.3, iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3, macOS Tahoe 26.3, visionOS 26.3. A website may be able to track users through Safari web extensions.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.3 (3.1)
Published
2026-02-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
apple/platform
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • apple / safari
  • apple / ipados
  • apple / iphone_os
  • apple / macos
  • apple / visionos

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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