CVE-2022-22587

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Mar 18, 2022
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Jan 5, 2022

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3, macOS Big Sur 11.6.3, macOS Monterey 12.2. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited..

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Affected Products

Product	Versions
iOS and iPadOSApple	before 15.3Affected
macOSApple	before 12.2Affected
macOSApple	before 11.6Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213055
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213053
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213054
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-22587government-resource

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