CVE-2022-22638: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15.4, iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, macOS Big Sur 11.6.5, Security Update 2022-003 Catalina, watchOS 8.5, macOS Monterey 12.3. An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.4 (fixed in 15.4)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.4 (fixed in 15.4)
• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.15, before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: from 11.6, before 11.6.5 (fixed in 11.6.5); from 12.0, before 12.3 (fixed in 12.3); version 10.15.7 only
• Apple tvOS: before 15.4 (fixed in 15.4)
• Apple watchOS: before 8.5 (fixed in 8.5)

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