CVE-2022-22672: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, Security Update 2022-003 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.3, macOS Big Sur 11.6.5. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

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 11.0, before 11.6.5 (fixed in 11.6.5); from 12.0.0, before 12.3 (fixed in 12.3)

Published 2022-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.