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CVE-2026-112706-CoreMedia-fd-leak

Independent discovery & coordinated disclosure: CoreMedia bytestream XPC (mediaplaybackd) vended live file descriptors for protected paths to any sandboxed app on iOS 26.5–27.0.1. Fixed in iOS 27.2 as CVE-2026-112706. PoC + evidence.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views

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Category and tags

  • Security
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No This is an iOS sandbox-escape vulnerability in CoreMedia with a PoC, which requires specialized security research, reverse engineering of private frameworks, and access to devices and exploit tooling.

What it would actually take: Reproducing it requires iOS reverse engineering (IDA/Ghidra, private framework analysis), XPC protocol analysis, and a jailbreak-capable or developer test environment. Responsible disclosure work also requires security research expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 217 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #198 of 218 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.

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