CVE-2022-26701: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.5 (fixed in 15.5)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.5 (fixed in 15.5)
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.6.6 (fixed in 11.6.6); from 12.0.0, before 12.4 (fixed in 12.4)
• Apple tvOS: before 15.4 (fixed in 15.4)

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