CVE-2025-46288: Medium severity Apple WatchOS vulnerability
Published Dec 12, 2025
·Updated
A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2, macOS Tahoe 26.2, visionOS 26.2, watchOS 26.2. An app may be able to access sensitive payment tokens.
Other sources
App Store. A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
— Apple
Credit
floeki(IES Red Team of ByteDance), Zhongcheng Li(IES Red Team of ByteDance), Michael Reeves@@IntegralPilot, an anonymous researcher, Riley Walz, CVE-2024-7264, CVE-2025-9086, Yiğit Ocak, Andrew Calvano(Meta Product Security), Lucas Pinheiro(Meta Product Security), Duy Trần@@khanhduytran0, Kaitao Xie(Alibaba Group), Xiaolong Bai(Alibaba Group), Rosyna Keller(Totally Not Malicious Software), Google Threat Analysis Group, an anonymous researcher(Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt), Michael Schmutzer(Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt), Iván Savransky, Bing Shi(Alibaba Group), Wenchao Li(Alibaba Group), (Indiana University Bloomington), Luyi Xing(Indiana University Bloomington), Hossein Lotfi@@hosselot(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), Google Big Sleep, Nan Wang@@eternalsakura13, Phil Pizlo(Epic Games), Apple, 이동하 (Lee Dong Ha(BoB 14th), Noah Gregory (wts.dev), Kirin@@Pwnrin, Andrei Simion, piffz, Daniel Nurkin, Al Sadman Awal, Mohamed Hamdadou & Mahran Alhazmi, Hichem Maloufi, Christian Mina, Gerson Aldaz, qwerty j0y & Ricardo Garcia, Dorian Del Valle, iG0x72(XiguaSec), JJ(XiguaSec), Lehan Dilusha Jayasinghe, CVE-2025-5918, Sumanth Rao(UC San Diego), Ye Shu(UC San Diego), Stefan Savage(UC San Diego), Aaron Schulman(UC San Diego), Geoffrey M. Voelker(UC San Diego), Enze Liu (Carnegie Mellon University), Mickey Jin@@patch1t, Jex Amro, Wojciech Regula(SecuRing), Ron Elemans, Kirin@@Pwnrin(Fudan University), LFY@@secsys(Fudan University), Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Iru), Andreas Jaegersberger & Ro Achterberg(Nosebeard Labs), Kenneth Chew, Haoling Zhou(SecLab of The Ohio State University), Shixuan Zhao@@NSKernel(SecLab of The Ohio State University), Chao Wang@@evi0s(SecLab of The Ohio State University), Zhiqiang Lin(SecLab of The Ohio State University), Atul R V, @@retsew0x01, Morris Richman@@morrisinlife, Gergely Kalman@@gergely_kalman, Kay Belardinelli (Harvard University)
Affected Software
10 affected componentsFixes available
Apple WatchOS<26.2
26.2
Apple iOS<26.2
26.2
Apple iPadOS<26.2
26.2
Apple visionOS<26.2
26.2
Apple macOS Tahoe<26.2
26.2
Apple iPadOS<26.2
Apple iPhone OS<26.2
Apple macOS<26.2
Apple visionOS<26.2
Apple WatchOS<26.2
Event History
Dec 12, 2025
Data Sourced
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Updated
via Apple·12:00 AM
Affected Software
Dec 17, 2025
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:46 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:46 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:16 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software
Parent advisories
This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.
Peer vulnerabilities
Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.
- CVE-2025-46288
- CVE-2025-43539
- CVE-2025-46287
- CVE-2024-7264
- CVE-2025-9086
- CVE-2025-43542
- CVE-2025-43532
- CVE-2025-46279
- CVE-2025-46285
- CVE-2025-46276
- CVE-2025-43533
- CVE-2025-46300
- CVE-2025-46301
- CVE-2025-46302
- CVE-2025-46303
- CVE-2025-46304
- CVE-2025-46305
- CVE-2025-43428
- CVE-2025-43538
- CVE-2025-46290
- CVE-2025-43541
- CVE-2025-43535
- CVE-2025-46298
- CVE-2025-43501
- CVE-2025-43531
- CVE-2025-14174
- CVE-2025-43529
- CVE-2025-46299
- CVE-2025-43511
- CVE-2025-43518
- CVE-2025-46277
- CVE-2025-46286
- CVE-2025-43537
- CVE-2025-43534
- CVE-2025-5918
- CVE-2025-46311
- CVE-2025-43475
- CVE-2025-46292
- CVE-2025-43536
- CVE-2025-43523
- CVE-2025-43519
- CVE-2025-43522
- CVE-2025-43521
- CVE-2025-46289
- CVE-2025-46297
- CVE-2025-43482
- CVE-2025-43517
- CVE-2025-46283
- CVE-2025-46281
- CVE-2025-43417
- CVE-2025-46278
- CVE-2025-43524
- CVE-2025-43512
- CVE-2025-46291
- CVE-2025-43513
- CVE-2025-43509
- CVE-2025-43410
- CVE-2025-43526
- CVE-2024-8906
- CVE-2025-43514
- CVE-2025-43527
- CVE-2025-43416
- CVE-2025-43516
- CVE-2025-43530
- CVE-2025-46282
Frequently Asked Questions
1
What is the severity of CVE-2025-46288?
CVE-2025-46288 is considered a medium severity vulnerability due to the potential impact of the permissions issue.
2
How do I fix CVE-2025-46288?
To mitigate CVE-2025-46288, users should update their Apple devices to the latest version beyond 26.2.
3
What products are affected by CVE-2025-46288?
CVE-2025-46288 affects Apple macOS Tahoe, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS versions up to 26.2.
4
What kind of issue does CVE-2025-46288 address?
CVE-2025-46288 addresses a permissions issue that could allow unauthorized access to certain features.
5
Is there a known workaround for CVE-2025-46288?
There are no known workarounds for CVE-2025-46288 other than updating affected devices to the latest software version.