CVE-2022-22676: Apple macOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An event handler validation issue in the XPC Services API was addressed by removing the service. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.2. An application may be able to delete files for which it does not have permission.

Affected products

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

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