Vulnerability record

CVE-2022-48618

Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Severity: HighExploitation: Exploitation confirmedCISA KEV
What should I do?

This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: attackers are using it. If you run Multiple Products, fix it now.

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

US federal civilian agencies must remediate by Feb 21, 2024.

Patch status

No official fix confirmed yet

Until a fix ships, follow the vendor's mitigations and CISA's required action, limit exposure of affected systems, and watch this record for a patch.

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.

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database. Official vulnerability data, reproduced as published.

Affected products

Products affected by this vulnerability, with versions and the source of each entry
ProductVendorAffected versionsFixed inSource
iOS & iPadOSApple< 16.216.2NVD
macOSApple>= 13.0, < 13.113.1NVD
Multiple ProductsApple——KEV

Sources: NVD = NIST National Vulnerability Database; KEV = CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Intelligence timeline

Developments from the last 30 days, newest first.

  1. CVSS scoredUpdateKEV

    CVE-2022-48618 scored CVSS 7.0: Apple Multiple Products, Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability

    CISA lists this as exploited in the wild. Unpatched Multiple Products systems are exposed to active attacks now.

    Basis: NIST National Vulnerability Database

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