CVE-2022-26765 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in watchOS 8.6, tvOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5. A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00059.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Apple	Ipados Iphone Os Macos Tvos Watchos

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-31315	A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. This issue is fixed in watchOS 8.6, tvOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5. A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213253
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213254
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213257
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213258

History

Fri, 30 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2022-05-26T19:21:18.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-30T19:12:49.023Z

Reserved: 2022-03-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-26765

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T05:11:44.486Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-05-26T20:15:09.643

Modified: 2025-05-30T19:15:27.413

Link: CVE-2022-26765

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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