About Apple security updates
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.
Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible.
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watchOS 10.5
Released May 13, 2024
AppleAVD
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2024-27804: Meysam Firouzi (@R00tkitSMM)
Entry updated May 15, 2024
AppleMobileFileIntegrity
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An attacker may be able to access user data
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-27816: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
Core Data
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: An issue was addressed with improved validation of environment variables.
CVE-2024-27805: Kirin (@Pwnrin) and 小来来 (@Smi1eSEC)
Entry added June 10, 2024
Disk Images
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to elevate privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-27832: an anonymous researcher
Entry added June 10, 2024
Foundation
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to elevate privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-27801: CertiK SkyFall Team
Entry added June 10, 2024
IOSurface
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2024-27828: Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.
Entry added June 10, 2024
Kernel
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An attacker that has already achieved kernel code execution may be able to bypass kernel memory protections
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2024-27840: an anonymous researcher
Entry added June 10, 2024
Kernel
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2024-27815: an anonymous researcher, and Joseph Ravichandran (@0xjprx) of MIT CSAIL
Entry added June 10, 2024
libiconv
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to elevate privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-27811: Nick Wellnhofer
Entry added June 10, 2024
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An attacker with physical access may be able to leak Mail account credentials
Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2024-23251: Gil Pedersen
Entry added June 10, 2024
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: A maliciously crafted email may be able to initiate FaceTime calls without user authorization
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-23282: Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun)
Entry added June 10, 2024
Maps
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2024-27810: LFY@secsys of Fudan University
Messages
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted message may lead to a denial-of-service
Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2024-27800: Daniel Zajork and Joshua Zajork
Entry added June 10, 2024
Phone
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: A person with physical access to a device may be able to view contact information from the lock screen
Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.
CVE-2024-27814: Dalibor Milanovic
Entry added June 10, 2024
RemoteViewServices
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An attacker may be able to access user data
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2024-27816: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
Shortcuts
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: A shortcut may output sensitive user data without consent
Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation.
CVE-2024-27821: Kirin (@Pwnrin), zbleet, and Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Kandji
Spotlight
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data
Description: This issue was addressed with improved environment sanitization.
CVE-2024-27806
Entry added June 10, 2024
WebKit
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
WebKit Bugzilla: 272750
CVE-2024-27834: Manfred Paul (@_manfp) working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
WebKit
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user
Description: The issue was addressed by adding additional logic.
WebKit Bugzilla: 262337
CVE-2024-27838: Emilio Cobos of Mozilla
Entry added June 10, 2024
WebKit
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 268221
CVE-2024-27808: Lukas Bernhard of CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Entry added June 10, 2024
WebKit
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks.
WebKit Bugzilla: 272106
CVE-2024-27851: Nan Wang (@eternalsakura13) of 360 Vulnerability Research Institute
Entry added June 10, 2024
WebKit
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
WebKit Bugzilla: 272750
CVE-2024-27834: Manfred Paul (@_manfp) working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative
Entry added June 10, 2024
WebKit Canvas
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user
Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 271159
CVE-2024-27830: Joe Rutkowski (@Joe12387) of Crawless and @abrahamjuliot
Entry added June 10, 2024
WebKit Web Inspector
Available for: Apple Watch Series 4 and later
Impact: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 270139
CVE-2024-27820: Jeff Johnson of underpassapp.com
Entry added June 10, 2024
Additional recognition
App Store
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
AppleMobileFileIntegrity
We would like to acknowledge Mickey Jin (@patch1t) for their assistance.
Entry added June 10, 2024
CoreHAP
We would like to acknowledge Adrian Cable for their assistance.
Disk Images
We would like to acknowledge Mickey Jin (@patch1t) for their assistance.
Entry added June 10, 2024
HearingCore
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
ImageIO
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.
Entry added June 10, 2024
Managed Configuration
We would like to acknowledge 遥遥领先 (@晴天组织) for their assistance.
Siri
We would like to acknowledge Abhay Kailasia (@abhay_kailasia) of Lakshmi Narain College of Technology Bhopal India for their assistance.
Entry added June 10, 2024
Transparency
We would like to acknowledge Mickey Jin (@patch1t) for their assistance.
Entry added June 10, 2024