CVE-2022-22630: Apple Mac OS X

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.6.6, macOS Monterey 12.3, Security Update 2022-004 Catalina. A remote user may cause an unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.6.6 (fixed in 11.6.6); from 12.0, before 12.3 (fixed in 12.3)

Published 2023-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.