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A vulnerability has been found in Apple Xcode up to 26.3 and classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component App. The manipulation leads to permission. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-28889. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Xcode up to 26.3 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component App. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-275. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in Xcode 26.4. An app may be able to read arbitrary files as root.

The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-28889 since 03/03/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/29/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1222 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 26.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Programming Tool Software

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• Apple

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• Xcode

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• 26.0
• 26.1
• 26.2
• 26.3

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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