Parsable Apple security updates release notes?

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Created Jun ’22

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Is there a "app-friendly" version of the security update notes available? For example, https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213256 for macOS 11.6.6 lists the CVE IDs for issues addressed but not in a format that would be easy to parse.

We'd like be be able to identify which CVEs a system has already had addressed, by comparing running OS version against the list published by Apple. Scraping a web page is not wholly reliable, but I assume Apple have this data in a more digestible format. Is this or could this be made available?

Thanks, Dave

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DTS Engineer OP

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Jun ’22

Is this or could this be made available?

I don’t have a definitive answer to the first question. AFAIK this isn’t available but I might have missed a memo somewhere along the line.

For the second question, I encourage you to file an enhancement request for this. This pans out in one of two ways:

If the info is available somewhere, the support articles you referenced should link to that.
If not, your ER is valid in and of itself.

Please post your bug number, just for the record.

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muddymurphydog OP

Jun ’22

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