The July 2026 Apple Security Update Review
Apple released 210 CVEs in July 2026 across iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS—a 5.7x jump from June's 37 CVEs. Critical vulnerabilities include CVE-2026-43818 (ImageIO RCE via malicious images, auto-parsed in Messages), CVE-2026-64747 (AVEVideoEncoder kernel code execution affecting all platforms), and CVE-2026-64767 (unauthenticated network-reachable kernel memory corruption via AFP). The release includes 9 code-execution bugs, 26 privilege-escalation flaws, 11 sandbox escapes, and 75 denial-of-service issues.