Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 Fixing 28 Vulnerabilities Including Kernel Flaws
Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 for Mac systems on August 17, 2026, local time. The update resolves 28 vulnerabilities tracked by CVE identifiers and includes corresponding Safari updates for older operating systems.
The patch set covers three kernel vulnerabilities. These include the Use After Free issue CVE-2026-65343, the out-of-bounds memory read CVE-2026-65349, and the memory corruption flaw CVE-2026-65330. Twenty-one additional vulnerabilities affect the WebKit rendering engine, while further fixes address components such as Audio, ImageIO, and IOGPUFamily.
The corrections in macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 reflect changes that were first made available in the macOS Golden Gate 27 beta. On August 18, Apple released Safari 26.6.1 for macOS Sonoma and macOS Sequoia, resolving the same 21 WebKit vulnerabilities.
The complete list of addressed CVEs is as follows:
- CVE-2026-43794
- CVE-2026-43795
- CVE-2026-64715
- CVE-2026-64778
- CVE-2026-64779
- CVE-2026-64780
- CVE-2026-64781
- CVE-2026-64782
- CVE-2026-64784
- CVE-2026-64787
- CVE-2026-64788
- CVE-2026-65330
- CVE-2026-65331
- CVE-2026-65332
- CVE-2026-65333
- CVE-2026-65334
- CVE-2026-65335
- CVE-2026-65336
- CVE-2026-65337
- CVE-2026-65338
- CVE-2026-65339
- CVE-2026-65340
- CVE-2026-65341
- CVE-2026-65343
- CVE-2026-65346
- CVE-2026-65347
- CVE-2026-65349
- CVE-2026-65351
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