PT-2022-18062 · Apple · Macos Catalina+2

Wang Yu · Published 2022-05-16 · Updated 2022-06-08 · CVE-2022-26761

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions macOS versions prior to 11.6.6 macOS Catalina versions prior to Security Update 2022-004

Description A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling, allowing an application to potentially execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Recommendations For macOS Catalina, apply Security Update 2022-004 to resolve the issue. For macOS Big Sur, update to version 11.6.6 to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about additional mitigation measures for other affected versions.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-26761

Affected Products

Apple Macos

Macos Big Sur

Macos Catalina

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-26761 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213256 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26761 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213257 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/30809 · Telegram Post
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-26761 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/102871 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/102873 · Note