CVE-2022-26769

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: May 26, 2022
Updated: May 30, 2025
Reserved: Mar 8, 2022

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-004 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.4, macOS Big Sur 11.6.6. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Security Update - CatalinaApple	before 2022Affected
macOSApple	before 11.6Affected
macOSApple	before 12.4Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213255
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213256
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213257

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