CVE-2022-32799: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-005 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.5. A user in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive information.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.15.7 only
  • Apple macOS: before 10.15.7 (fixed in 10.15.7); from 12.0, before 12.5 (fixed in 12.5); version 10.15.7 only

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