CVE-2022-42849

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Dec 15, 2022
Updated: Apr 21, 2025
Reserved: Oct 11, 2022

Description

An access issue existed with privileged API calls. This issue was addressed with additional restrictions. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2, tvOS 16.2, watchOS 9.2. A user may be able to elevate 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-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
tvOSApple	before 16.2Affected
tvOSApple	before 16.2Affected
watchOSApple	before 9.2Affected

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213535
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213530
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213536
20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-1 iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2mailing-list
20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-7 tvOS 16.2mailing-list
20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-8 watchOS 9.2mailing-list

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