This document describes the security content of watchOS 26.2.
For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security releases page.
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Released December 12, 2025
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive payment tokens
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2025-46288: floeki, Zhongcheng Li from IES Red Team of ByteDance
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: Processing a file may lead to memory corruption
Description: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks.
CVE-2025-43539: Michael Reeves (@IntegralPilot)
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: An attacker may be able to spoof their FaceTime caller ID
Description: An inconsistent user interface issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2025-46287: an anonymous researcher, Riley Walz
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: Multiple issues in curl
Description: This is a vulnerability in open source code and Apple Software is among the affected projects. The CVE-ID was assigned by a third party. Learn more about the issue and CVE-ID at cve.org.
CVE-2024-7264
CVE-2025-9086
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: An app may be able to inappropriately access files through the spellcheck API
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2025-43518: Noah Gregory (wts.dev)
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: Processing malicious data may lead to unexpected app termination
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
CVE-2025-43532: Andrew Calvano and Lucas Pinheiro of Meta Product Security
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: An app may be able to identify what other apps a user has installed
Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2025-46279: Duy Trần (@khanhduytran0)
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges
Description: An integer overflow was addressed by adopting 64-bit timestamps.
CVE-2025-46285: Kaitao Xie and Xiaolong Bai of Alibaba Group
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved privacy controls.
CVE-2025-46276: Rosyna Keller of Totally Not Malicious Software
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: A malicious HID device may cause an unexpected process crash
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2025-43533: Google Threat Analysis Group
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: An app may be able to access a user’s Safari history
Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.
CVE-2025-46277: Kirin (@Pwnrin)
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.
CVE-2025-43538: Iván Savransky
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 301940
CVE-2025-43531: Phil Pizlo of Epic Games
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26. CVE-2025-14174 was also issued in response to this report.
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 302502
CVE-2025-43529: Google Threat Analysis Group
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26. CVE-2025-43529 was also issued in response to this report.
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.
WebKit Bugzilla: 303614
CVE-2025-14174: Apple and Google Threat Analysis Group
Available for: Apple Watch Series 6 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash
Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 300926
CVE-2025-43511: 이동하 (Lee Dong Ha of BoB 14th)
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
We would like to acknowledge Mickey Jin (@patch1t) for their assistance.
We would like to acknowledge Golden Helm Securities for their assistance.
We would like to acknowledge Mochammad Nosa Shandy Prastyo for their assistance.
We would like to acknowledge Geva Nurgandi Syahputra (gevakun) for their assistance.