Apple macOS

CVE-2022-26709

HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.11 % · percentile 66 (2026-10-29)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-11-01 00:00 UTC
Updated: 2025-05-06 19:08 UTC
Assigner: apple
NVD status: Modified

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Description

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15.5, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5, watchOS 8.6, macOS Monterey 12.4, Safari 15.5. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416 — Use After Free

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-31259
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-26709

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2022-AVI-467 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2022-AVI-466 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Apple · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 15.5
cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 15.5
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 15.5
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 12.0.0 < 12.4
cpe:2.3:o:apple:tvos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 15.5
cpe:2.3:o:apple:watchos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 8.6

Affected products

Product	Versions
Apple · macOS	affected unspecified < 12.4
Apple · macOS	affected unspecified < 15.5
Apple · watchOS	affected unspecified < 8.6
Apple · watchOS	affected unspecified < 15.5
Apple · watchOS	affected unspecified < 15.5

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD

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