CVE-2022-22583: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-001 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.2, macOS Big Sur 11.6.3. An application may be able to access restricted files.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.15, before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: before 11.6.3 (fixed in 11.6.3); from 12.0.0, before 12.3 (fixed in 12.3); version 10.15.7 only

Published 2022-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.