PT-2022-26612 · Apple · Ipados+3

Published 2022-10-24 · Updated 2025-04-21 · CVE-2022-42831

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions iOS versions prior to 16.1 iPadOS versions prior to 16 macOS Ventura versions prior to 13

Description A race condition was addressed with improved locking, which may allow an app with root privileges to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Recommendations For iOS versions prior to 16.1, update to iOS 16.1 or later. For iPadOS versions prior to 16, update to iPadOS 16 or later. For macOS Ventura versions prior to 13, update to macOS Ventura 13 or later.

Fix

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-42831

Affected Products

Apple Macos

Ios

Ipados

Macos Ventura

References · 8

• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213489 · Vendor Advisory
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213488 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42831 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-42831 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/52424 · Telegram Post
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-42831 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/102853 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/119186 · Telegram Post