CVE-2022-32786: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue in the handling of environment variables was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-005 Catalina, macOS Big Sur 11.6.8, macOS Monterey 12.5. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

Affected products

• 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 12.5 (fixed in 12.5); version 10.15.7 only

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