- Apple has released emergency security updates for all major platforms including iOS, macOS, and visionOS.
- The patches address a critical memory corruption flaw (CVE-2026-20700) in dyld that may have been exploited in sophisticated attacks.
- This marks Apple’s first security response to an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in 2026.
- Recent updates also resolved two other CVEs (CVE-2025-14174 and CVE-2025-43529) linked to the same report.
Apple has moved swiftly to patch a critical security vulnerability across its entire ecosystem, releasing updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS on Wednesday, February 12, 2026. The company confirmed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20700, is a memory corruption issue in dyld and warned it “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.”
Consequently, this marks Apple‘s first publicly disclosed effort to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in 2026. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a device.
Furthermore, Apple noted that the emergency update also addresses concerns related to two previously patched vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-14174 and CVE-2025-43529, which were reportedly part of the same chain of exploitation. These vulnerabilities, an out-of-bounds access in ANGLE’s Metal renderer and a use-after-free flaw in WebKit, were initially fixed in December 2025.
Meanwhile, the updates are available for a wide range of devices, from iPhone 11 models and later to the Apple Vision Pro. This incident follows a pattern from 2025, during which Apple patched nine zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild.
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