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🛡️ CVE-2022-22587 — ipados

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-787 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3, macOS Big Sur 11.6.3, macOS Monterey 12.2. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited..

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-22587 is classified as CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write. Data is written past the end or before the start of a buffer, corrupting whatever is stored there.

Affected software

CVE-2022-22587 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • ipados (fixed in 15.3)
  • iphone-os (fixed in 15.3)
  • macos (from 12.0 up to 12.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 18 March 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

support.apple.com
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www.cisa.gov

Other advisories for this package

ipados has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-787
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-03-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ipados — 15.3
iphone-os — 15.3
macos 12.0 12.2

References

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213053
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213054
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213055
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213053
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213054
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213055

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