CVE-2022-42808: Apple iPadOS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura 13, watchOS 9.1. A remote user may be able to cause kernel code execution.

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)
• 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.