CVE-2022-26768: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.4, watchOS 8.6, tvOS 15.5, macOS Big Sur 11.6.6. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.6 (fixed in 15.6)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.6 (fixed in 15.6)
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.6.6 (fixed in 11.6.6); 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.