🛡️ CVE-2022-32788
🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-120 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in watchOS 8.7, tvOS 15.6, iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6, macOS Monterey 12.5. A remote user may be able to cause kernel code execution.

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-120
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-09-20
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-05-28
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ipados — 15.6
iphone-os — 15.6
macos 12.0.0 12.5
tvos — 15.6
watchos — 8.7

References

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213340
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213342
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213345
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213346
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213340
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213342
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213345
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213346

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