CVE-2022-46706: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-003 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.3, macOS Big Sur 11.6.5. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.15.7 only
• Apple macOS: from 11.0, before 11.6.5 (fixed in 11.6.5); from 12.0.0, before 12.3 (fixed in 12.3)

Published 2023-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.