CVE-2022-32781: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed by enabling hardened runtime. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5, Security Update 2022-005 Catalina, macOS Big Sur 11.6.8. An app with root privileges may be able to access private information.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.5 (fixed in 15.5)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.5 (fixed in 15.5)
• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); from 11.0, before 11.6.8 (fixed in 11.6.8); from 12.0, before 12.4 (fixed in 12.4); version 10.15.7 only

Published 2022-09-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.