CVE-2026-47121

Sparkle vulnerability CVE-2026-47121 (affecting macOS AutoUpdate) arises from a defense-in-depth gap in delta application. An archive item can create a symlink in the destination tree and a subsequent file write may traverse the symlink path, allowing writes outside the intended destination when ...

Sparkle: Binary delta apply intermediate-symlink traversal in malicious .delta

Binary delta apply intermediate-symlink traversal in malicious .delta Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaApply.m enforces relativePath.pathComponents containsObject:@".." and rejects writes whose immediate parent directory IS itself a symbolic link, but does not detect symlinks deeper in the relative path...