CVE-2022-48618
High 7.0 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.1, watchOS 9.2, iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2, tvOS 16.2. An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.1.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
-
7.0 (HIGH)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% (percentile: 42) as of 2 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-367
Affected products
apple: ipados; apple: iphone os; apple: macos; apple: tvos; apple: watchos
References
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213530 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213532 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213535 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213536 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213530 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213532 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213535 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213536 Release NotesVendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022… US Government Resource