CVE-2022-32839: Apple iPadOS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.5, macOS Big Sur 11.6.8, Security Update 2022-005 Catalina, iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6, tvOS 15.6, watchOS 8.7. A remote user may cause an unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.6 (fixed in 15.6)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.6 (fixed in 15.6)
• 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
• Apple tvOS: before 15.6 (fixed in 15.6)
• Apple watchOS: before 8.7 (fixed in 8.7)

Published 2022-08-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.