CVE-2022-42791: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

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

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