CVE-2022-48618

highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.005 · 42 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP0 · Act now

Exploitable?

Yes · in the wild

CISA KEV

Likely / severe?

0.49% (42nd) EPSS

CVSS 7 · high

Is it mine?

16 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

added 2024-01-31remediate by 2024-02-21

required action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.17highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1 · impact 5.9

v3.17.8highAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 1 · impact 5.9

v3.17highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-367USprimaryCWE-287US

affected products (16)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apple iOS <12.5.7all versionscert_bundDE
Apple IOS< 12.5.7cert_bundDE
Apple iOS and iPadOSunspecified → 16.2enisa_euvdEU
Apple macOSunspecified → 13.1enisa_euvdEU
Apple tvOSunspecified → 16.2enisa_euvdEU
Apple watchOSunspecified → 9.2enisa_euvdEU
Apple Inc. MacOS≤ 13.1fstec_bduRU
Apple Inc. iOS≤ 16.2fstec_bduRU
Apple Inc. iPadOS≤ 16.2fstec_bduRU
Apple Inc. tvOS≤ 16.2fstec_bduRU
Apple Inc. watchOS≤ 9.2fstec_bduRU
apple ipados< 16.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple iphone os< 16.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple macos13.0 → 13.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple tvos< 16.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple watchos< 9.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-2313Apple macOS: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-12-13csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Apple macOS ausnutzen, um den Benutzer zu täuschen, Informationen offenzulegen, Sicherheitsmechanismen zu umgehen, Rechte zu erweitern und beliebigen Code mit Kernel-Rechten auszuführen.
WID-SEC-W-2022-2321Apple iOS: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2022-12-13csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Apple iOS und Apple iPadOS ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2024-01-09modified 2026-06-17

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references (14)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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