Advisory severityCritical9.3Sophos Updated

Critical [CVE-2026-18367] privilege escalation vulnerability allows local users to execute arbitrary code as root via Sophos Endpoint for macOS older than version 2026.1.1 and Sophos Home for macOS older than version 10.11.6

This critical-severity Sophos advisory covers CVE-2026-18367 affecting Sophos Endpoint for macOS, Sophos Home for macOS.

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CVE-2026-18367 Source published Aug 7, 2026Source updated Sep 1, 2026

VulniPulse record published Aug 7, 2026Record updated Oct 21, 2026

CVE-2026-18367

Affected products & platforms

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Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability allows local users to execute arbitrary code as root via Sophos Endpoint for macOS older than version 2026.1.1 and Sophos Home for macOS older than version 10.11.6.

Affected versions

Sophos Endpoint for macOS before 2026.1.1
Sophos Home for macOS before 10.11.6

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 months ago·verify at source

Fixed versions

2026.1.1
10.11.6

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 months ago·verify at source

Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: 2026.1.1, 10.11.6. That is the remediation for this advisory.

The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 3 months ago·verify at source

Sources

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CVE.org CNA affected-product recordCVE.org
Structured CNA affected[] data independently confirmed the affected product scope; native advisory content remains authoritative.
CVE Program
NVD discovery recordNVD
Independent discovery and scoring cross-reference. Vendor remediation guidance takes precedence. Discovered from the machine-readable feed https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0; this link opens the NVD record for CVE-2026-18367 instead of the raw feed document.
NIST National Vulnerability Database

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