CVE-2022-42825: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This issue was addressed by removing additional entitlements. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.1, macOS Ventura 13, watchOS 9.1, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, macOS Monterey 12.6.1, macOS Big Sur 11.7.1. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.

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); from 11.0, before 11.7.1 (fixed in 11.7.1); from 12.0, 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.