CVE-2022-32786

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Sep 23, 2022
Updated: May 22, 2025
Reserved: Jun 9, 2022

Description

An issue in the handling of environment variables was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-005 Catalina, macOS Big Sur 11.6.8, macOS Monterey 12.5. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
macOSApple	before 12.5Affected
macOSApple	before 11.6Affected
macOSApple	before 2022Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213345
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213344
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213343

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