watchOS 27.2

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Released October 26, 2026

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.

CVE-2026-113898: Bhaswanth Chigurupati

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.

CVE-2026-112446: LiangWei, Sindre Sorhus

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks.

CVE-2026-112692: Huy Nguyen (@34306) of Calif.io

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-112454: @Licht_jb, Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected app termination

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-112546: lunar815, Surej Sekhar, Piotr Jerzy Duszynski, r3pwnx (@r3pwnx), an anonymous researcher, Lily Cohl (@GenericCoding), Nathaniel Oh (@calysteon)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-112470: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-112466: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An attacker in physical proximity may be able to cause a denial-of-service

Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2026-112566: Chris Bailey - Short Circuit

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-112678: Neon, Niels Hofmans, Mustafa Calap (@ordinal0, dbg.re)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted calendar invitation may lead to memory corruption

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-112619: Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in disclosure of process memory

Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-86988: Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero, Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory

Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-113910: Tucker Willenborg

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt process memory

Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-113907: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to memory corruption

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved size validation.

CVE-2026-86972: an anonymous researcher, Meta Product Security

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An attacker in radio range may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A heap buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-112638: Përparim Mjeku, Altin Gashi, Altin Gashi

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-113950: Substrate, Stefan Esser (Calif)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected app termination

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-86992: Niels Hofmans

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.

CVE-2026-112706: Adriatik Raci, Rodolphe BRUNETTI (@eisw0lf) of Lupus Nova, Chris Bailey - Short Circuit

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-112656: Nurihan Kim (HanTul) working with TrendAI Zero Day Initiative

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-86970: Hcamael and 章鱼哥@aipy (aipyaipy.com)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.

CVE-2026-112432: D4rthL

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to impersonate a Kerberos KDC

Description: An issue with signature validation was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-112518: Roman Zabicki, Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected system termination

Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-112596: Garin R

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in disclosure of process memory

Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-112571: sh3rlock (김보겸)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may result in disclosure of process memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-112561: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin

CVE-2026-112560: Wout van der Ploeg (woutvanderploeg.nl)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-112515: Charles Stevenson, Seung Je Seong, Mathis Mansière

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: A buffer overflow may result in memory corruption and unexpected app termination

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-65385: Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.

CVE-2026-112459: Lily Cohl (@GenericCoding), an anonymous researcher

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved locking.

CVE-2026-112477: an anonymous researcher

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected changes to copy-on-write memory

Description: A memory integrity issue was addressed with improved handling of copy-on-write pages.

CVE-2026-112576: Pedro Pinho

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2026-112606: Wang Yu

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-65350: Nebula Security (@nebusecurity), Tim Michaud (@TimGMichaud) of Aginor.ai, Xinru Chi of Pangu Lab

CVE-2026-112679: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-112517: Pasquale Scola, Wout van der Ploeg (woutvanderploeg.nl), John Lussier, Cem Onat Karagun, an anonymous researcher

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-112516: greenbynox, an anonymous researcher

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-112514: Marc Newlin of SkySafe, Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd., greenbynox

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2026-84495: Wang Yu

CVE-2026-112474: Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd.

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.

CVE-2026-112501: Cem Onat Karagun

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2026-112476: Arnold Cartagena, Matt Suiche (@msuiche) of Tolmo

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to determine kernel memory layout

Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-112665: Will Estes

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.

CVE-2026-113915: Abodi Dawoud, Rodolphe BRUNETTI (@eisw0lf) of Lupus Nova, Zhongquan Li (@Guluisacat), Ilya Andr (andrd3v) of Positive Technologies

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination

Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-112682: Mahmoud Abdelmoniem

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-112559: Lucas Lammer, Stuart Wallace

CVE-2026-112455: Chris Bailey - Short Circuit, Rahul Raj

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data

Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2026-112685: silo, Abodi Dawoud

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.

CVE-2022-26704: Joshua Mason of Mandiant, Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2026-112567: zenith

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2026-112691: @Licht_jb

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 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: 328114

CVE-2026-113904: Lily Cohl (@GenericCoding), Do Young Park (adawn), MYUNGYONG LEE, Luke Francis (@lukefr09), Shubham Chaskar, Kwak Kiyong, Song Nuri

WebKit Bugzilla: 317465

CVE-2026-112599: Avinash Kumar Thapa & Jay Kaushik Patel

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 322916

CVE-2026-112697: OpenAI Codex Security - Amy Burnett, 은태 장

WebKit Bugzilla: 324150

CVE-2026-112655: Euntae Jang

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process termination

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved locking.

WebKit Bugzilla: 323986

CVE-2026-112686: an anonymous researcher

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash

Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 328132

CVE-2026-112684: Gia Bui (@yabeow) from Calif.io

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash

Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.

WebKit Bugzilla: 323173

CVE-2026-112669: remanone (@remanone_)

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process termination

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 321669

CVE-2026-112666: Luke Francis (@lukefr09)

WebKit Bugzilla: 324735

CVE-2026-112615: Chris Rohlf with Anthropic Research

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 324262

CVE-2026-112640: an anonymous researcher

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 323377

CVE-2026-112637: Chris Rohlf with Anthropic Research, 은태 장

WebKit JavaScript Bindings

Available for: Apple Watch Series 9 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 328141

CVE-2026-112626: Euntae Jang, Luke Francis (@lukefr09), Shubham Chaskar, Josef Korbel (Citadelo)

Additional recognition

We would like to acknowledge Meta Product Security for their assistance.

We would like to acknowledge Niels Hofmans for their assistance.

We would like to acknowledge Jaya Surya Kommireddy for their assistance.

We would like to acknowledge Billy Jheng Bing Jhong and Pan Zhenpeng (@Peterpan0927) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd., Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) from Talence Security for their assistance.

We would like to acknowledge Muhammad Abdul Rehman, Owais Lone for their assistance.

We would like to acknowledge Aswin Kumar Gokula Kannan, Lucas Lammer, pixillated for their assistance.

We would like to acknowledge Ilya Andr (andrd3v) of Positive Technologies for their assistance.

We would like to acknowledge Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos, Wael Alolowi for their assistance.

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