About the security content of watchOS 26.2

This document describes the security content of watchOS 26.2.

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watchOS 26.2

App Store

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

AppleJPEG

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)

Calling Framework

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

curl

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

Foundation

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)

Foundation

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

Icons

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)

Kernel

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

Messages

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

Multi-Touch

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

Screen Time

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)

Screen Time

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

WebKit

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.

CVE-2025-43531: Phil Pizlo of Epic Games

WebKit

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.

CVE-2025-43529: Google Threat Analysis Group

WebKit

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.

CVE-2025-14174: Apple and Google Threat Analysis Group

WebKit Web Inspector

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.

CVE-2025-43511: 이동하 (Lee Dong Ha of BoB 14th)

Additional recognition

AppleMobileFileIntegrity

We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

AppSandbox

We would like to acknowledge Mickey Jin (@patch1t) for their assistance.

Core Services

We would like to acknowledge Golden Helm Securities for their assistance.

Safari

We would like to acknowledge Mochammad Nosa Shandy Prastyo for their assistance.

WebKit

We would like to acknowledge Geva Nurgandi Syahputra (gevakun) for their assistance.