Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2022-48618)

A local attacker, with a low-privilege account, can achieve full data confidentiality loss, arbitrary modification of data, complete denial of service or system unavailability. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2024-02-21 under CISA BOD 22-01.

This is a Software Vulnerability (CWE-367) (CWE-367) vulnerability in Apple Multiple Products. 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. Exploitation requires local access, higher attack complexity, a low-privilege authenticated account, and no user interaction required.

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CISA added this CVE to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-01-31 based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. Federal agencies required to remediate by 2024-02-21.