CVE-2022-42813: Apple iPadOS

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certificate validation issue existed in the handling of WKWebView. This issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura 13, watchOS 9.1. Processing a maliciously crafted certificate may lead to arbitrary 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.