CVE-2022-26727: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed with improved entitlements. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-004 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.4. A malicious application may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.15, before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: from 12.0, before 12.4 (fixed in 12.4)

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