Vulnerability · Published Jan 9, 2026 · Assigned by apple

CVE-2025-46299

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity improper access control in iOS and iPadOS from Apple. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 23% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 76.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.2, iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2, macOS Tahoe 26.2, tvOS 26.2, visionOS 26.2, watchOS 26.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose internal states of the app.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk32.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk32.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk32.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-devel2.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-devel2.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-devel2.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-jsc2.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc2.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc2.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
AlmaLinux:8webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.52.3-1.el8_10ALSA-2026:10702
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.52.3-1.el9_8ALSA-2026:19206
AlmaLinux:9webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel2.52.3-0.el9_7.1ALSA-2026:9692
Debian:12webkit2gtkno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-46299
Debian:13webkit2gtk2.52.3-2~deb13u1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-46299
Debian:14webkit2gtk2.52.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-46299
Debian:12wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-46299
Debian:13wpewebkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-46299
Debian:14wpewebkit2.52.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-46299
Rocky Linux:8webkit2gtk30:2.52.3-1.el8_10RLSA-2026:10702
Rocky Linux:9webkit2gtk30:2.52.3-1.el9_8RLSA-2026:19206
Rocky Linux:9webkit2gtk30:2.52.3-0.el9_7.1RLSA-2026:9692
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSqtwebkit-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-46299
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSqtwebkit-opensource-srcno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-46299
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwebkit2gtkno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-46299
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSwebkit2gtk2.52.3-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-46299
Ubuntu:25.10webkit2gtk2.52.3-0ubuntu0.25.10.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-46299
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSwpewebkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-46299

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Apple Safari 0 – before 26.2
Apple iOS and iPadOS 0 – before 26.2
Apple macOS 0 – before 26.2
Apple tvOS 0 – before 26.2
Apple visionOS 0 – before 26.2
Apple watchOS 0 – before 26.2

Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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