PT-2022-18065 · Apple · Apple Macos+4

Linus Henze · Published 2022-05-16 · Updated 2025-05-30 · CVE-2022-26765

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.7

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions watchOS versions prior to 8.6 tvOS versions prior to 15.5 macOS Monterey versions prior to 12.4 iOS versions prior to 15.5 iPadOS versions prior to 15.5

Description A race condition was addressed with improved state handling, which could allow a malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability to bypass Pointer Authentication.

Recommendations For watchOS versions prior to 8.6, update to watchOS 8.6 to resolve the issue. For tvOS versions prior to 15.5, update to tvOS 15.5 to resolve the issue. For macOS Monterey versions prior to 12.4, update to macOS Monterey 12.4 to resolve the issue. For iOS versions prior to 15.5, update to iOS 15.5 to resolve the issue. For iPadOS versions prior to 15.5, update to iPadOS 15.5 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-26765

Affected Products

Apple Macos

Ios

Ipados

Tvos

Watchos

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26765 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213253 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213258 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213254 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-26765 · Security Note
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213257 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/124207 · Telegram Post
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-26765 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/43445 · Telegram Post
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/102871 · Note