CVE-2022-32788: Apple iPadOS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in watchOS 8.7, tvOS 15.6, iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6, macOS Monterey 12.5. A remote user may be able to cause kernel code execution.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.6 (fixed in 15.6)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.6 (fixed in 15.6)
• Apple macOS: from 12.0.0, before 12.5 (fixed in 12.5)
• Apple tvOS: before 15.6 (fixed in 15.6)
• Apple watchOS: before 8.7 (fixed in 8.7)

Published 2022-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.