CVE-2022-22582: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 17.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-003 Catalina, macOS Big Sur 11.6.5, macOS Monterey 12.3. A local user may be able to write arbitrary files.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.6.5 (fixed in 11.6.5); from 12.0.0, before 12.3 (fixed in 12.3)

Published 2023-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.