CVE-2022-48618: Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 7.0. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2024-01-31. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.1, watchOS 9.2, iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2, tvOS 16.2. An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.1.

Affected products

• Apple iPadOS: before 16.2 (fixed in 16.2)
• Apple iPhone OS: before 16.2 (fixed in 16.2)
• Apple macOS: from 13.0, before 13.1 (fixed in 13.1)
• Apple tvOS: before 16.2 (fixed in 16.2)
• Apple watchOS: before 9.2 (fixed in 9.2)

Published 2024-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.