CVE-2022-42793: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue in code signature validation was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.7, macOS Ventura 13, iOS 16, iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7, macOS Monterey 12.6. An app may be able to bypass code signing checks.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.7 (fixed in 15.7)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.7 (fixed in 15.7)
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.7 (fixed in 11.7); from 12.0, before 12.6 (fixed in 12.6)

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