CVE-2022-42823: Apple iPadOS

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.1, macOS Ventura 13, watchOS 9.1, Safari 16.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16. Processing maliciously crafted web content 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 Safari: before 16.1 (fixed in 16.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 16.1 (fixed in 16.1)
• Apple watchOS: before 9.1 (fixed in 9.1)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 35 only; version 36 only; version 37 only

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