CVE-2022-42832: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

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)

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