CVE-2022-46705: Apple iPadOS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A spoofing issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2, macOS Ventura 13.1, Safari 16.2. Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing.

Affected products

  • Apple iPadOS: before 15.7.2 (fixed in 15.7.2); from 16.0, before 16.2 (fixed in 16.2)
  • Apple iPhone OS: before 15.7.2 (fixed in 15.7.2); from 16.0, before 16.2 (fixed in 16.2)
  • Apple macOS: before 13.1 (fixed in 13.1)
  • Apple Safari: before 16.2 (fixed in 16.2)
  • Apple tvOS: before 16.2 (fixed in 16.2)
  • Apple watchOS: before 9.2 (fixed in 9.2)

Published 2023-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.