CVE-2022-26746: Apple Mac OS X

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

This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-004 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.4, macOS Big Sur 11.6.6. A malicious application may be able to bypass Privacy preferences.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); version 10.15.7 only
  • Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.6.6 (fixed in 11.6.6); from 12.0, before 12.4 (fixed in 12.4)

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