CVE-2022-42803: Apple iPadOS

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

A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.1, iOS 15.7.1 and iPadOS 15.7.1, macOS Ventura 13, watchOS 9.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, macOS Monterey 12.6.1. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 15.7.1 (fixed in 15.7.1)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 15.7.1 (fixed in 15.7.1); version 16.0 only
• Apple macOS: before 12.6.1 (fixed in 12.6.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 16.1 (fixed in 16.1)
• Apple watchOS: before 9.1 (fixed in 9.1)

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