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CVE-2022-26765
A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in watchOS 8.6, tvOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5…
Medium4.7EPSS 0.21%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
Description
A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in watchOS 8.6, tvOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5. A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 89% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Weakness
- A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-362 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (4)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213258 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213253 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213254 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213257 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2022-26765)Record last updated .