CVE-2022-32938: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura 13. A shortcut may be able to check the existence of an arbitrary path on the file system.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 16.0 (fixed in 16.0)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 16.1 (fixed in 16.1)
• Apple macOS: before 13.0 (fixed in 13.0)

Published 2022-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.