Apple watchOS up to 18.2 Web memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Apple watchOS. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Web Handler. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2025-43343. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Apple watchOS. This affects an unknown code of the component Web Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, visionOS 26. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

The advisory is shared at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-43343 since 04/16/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 270564 (RHEL 9 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2025:18097)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 26.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (270564) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2269). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Fedora Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• IGEL OS
• Open Source WebKitGTK

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Type

• Smartwatch Operating System

Vendor

• Apple

Name

• watchOS

Version

• 2.2.2
• 3
• 3.1
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.3
• 3.2
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 4.0
• 4.2
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.3
• 4.3.1
• 4.3.2
• 4.4.2
• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.1.3
• 5.2
• 5.2.1
• 5.3
• 5.3.2
• 5.3.7
• 5.3.9
• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.2
• 6.2.4
• 6.2.5
• 6.2.6
• 6.2.8
• 6.2.9
• 7.0
• 7.0.3
• 7.1
• 7.2
• 7.3
• 7.3.2
• 7.3.3
• 7.4
• 7.4.1
• 7.5
• 7.6
• 7.6.2
• 8.0
• 8.1
• 8.3
• 8.4
• 8.5
• 8.6
• 8.7
• 8.8.1
• 9.1
• 9.2
• 9.3
• 9.4
• 9.5
• 9.5.1
• 9.5.2
• 9.6
• 10.0
• 10.5
• 10.15.0
• 10.15.1
• 12.1
• 13.0
• 13.7
• 14.0
• 15
• 15.1
• 18
• 18.1
• 18.2

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apple.com/

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