CVE-2022-22591: Apple macOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.2. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

• Apple macOS: from 12.0.0, before 12.2 (fixed in 12.2)

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