CVE-2022-26765: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in watchOS 8.6, tvOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5. A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.5 (fixed in 15.5)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.5 (fixed in 15.5)
• Apple macOS: from 12.0, before 12.4 (fixed in 12.4)
• Apple tvOS: before 15.5 (fixed in 15.5)
• Apple watchOS: before 8.6 (fixed in 8.6)

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