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Security advisories

Vulnerabilities I have found and disclosed responsibly. Bug-bounty reports stay private until the program allows publication; what is listed here has cleared coordinated disclosure.

1 published CVE

high CVE-2026-28840 CVSS 7.8 Apple

Local privilege escalation to root in macOS PackageKit

A permissions issue in PackageKit, the macOS framework behind software installation, allowed a malicious app to escalate to root. Apple fixed it in macOS Tahoe 26.4 by adding further restrictions.

Impact An app could gain root privileges — full local compromise of the machine (read/modify any data, persist, disable protections).

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

fixed