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Posted on 27 October 2026
Apple Security-announceAPPLE-SA-10-26-2026-8 watchOS 27.2
watchOS 27.2 addresses the following issues.
Information about the security content is also available at
https://support.apple.com/149525.
Apple maintains a Security Releases page at
https://support.apple.com/100100 which lists recent
software updates with security advisories.
Accounts
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
Accounts
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
App Intents
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
AppleAVD
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 =E7=AB=A0=E9=B1=BC=E5=93=A5@aipy =(aipyaipy.com)
Audio
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)
AVEVideoEncoder
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 =E7=AB=A0=E9=B1=BC=E5=93=A5@aipy =(aipyaipy.com)
AVEVideoEncoder
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 =E7=AB=A0=E9=B1=BC=E5=93=A5@aipy =(aipyaipy.com)
Bluetooth
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
Calendar
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)
Calendar
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
ColorSync
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
Compression
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
CoreAudio
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
CoreAudio
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
CoreAudio
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: P=C3=ABrparim Mjeku, Altin Gashi, Altin Gashi
CoreGraphics
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)
CoreMedia
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
CoreMedia
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
CoreText
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
FontParser
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 =E7=AB=A0=E9=B1=BC=E5=93=A5@aipy =(aipyaipy.com)
FontParser
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
Heimdal
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
HomeKit
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
ImageIO
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 (=EA=B9=80=EB=B3=B4=EA=B2=B8)
ImageIO
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)
IOHIDFamily
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 Mansi=C3=A8re
IOKit
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
IOMobileFrameBuffer
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
IOSurface
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
Kernel
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
Kernel
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
Kernel
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.
Kernel
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
Kernel
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
Kernel
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
Kernel
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.
Kernel
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
Kernel
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
Kernel
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
MediaAnalysis
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
Messages
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
Shortcuts
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
Siri
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
Spotlight
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)
Spotlight
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
SwiftUI
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
WebKit
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
WebKit
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, =EC=9D=80=ED=83=9C ==EC=9E=A5
WebKit Bugzilla: 324150
CVE-2026-112655: Euntae Jang
WebKit
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
WebKit
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
WebKit
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_)
WebKit
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
WebKit
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
WebKit Canvas
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, =EC=9D=80=ED=83=9C ==EC=9E=A5
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
CoreAudio
We would like to acknowledge Meta Product Security for their assistance.
CoreCrypto
We would like to acknowledge Niels Hofmans for their assistance.
Foundation
We would like to acknowledge Jaya Surya Kommireddy for their assistance.
Kernel
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.
libarchive
We would like to acknowledge Muhammad Abdul Rehman, Owais Lone for their
assistance.
mDNSResponder
We would like to acknowledge Aswin Kumar Gokula Kannan, Lucas Lammer,
pixillated for their assistance.
Sandbox Profiles
We would like to acknowledge Ilya Andr (andrd3v) of Positive
Technologies for their assistance.
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of
Cisco Talos, Wael Alolowi for their assistance.
Instructions on how to update your Apple Watch software are
available at https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204641
To check the version on your Apple Watch, open the Apple Watch app
on your iPhone and select "My Watch > General > About".
Alternatively, on your watch, select "My Watch > General > About".
All information is also posted on the Apple Security Releases
web site: https://support.apple.com/100100.
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