CVE-2022-42831 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura 13. An app with root privileges may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Published: 2022-11-01

Score: 6.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Apple

macOS

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`unspecified`	affected	< 13

Apple

macOS

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`unspecified`	affected	< 16.1

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:ipados::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos::::::::

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-45894	A race condition was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura 13. An app with root privileges may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00038.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213488
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213489

History

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Apple Ipados Iphone Os Macos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-21T17:07:09.718Z

Reserved: 2022-10-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42831

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:19:04.802Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-01T20:15:24.710

Modified: 2025-04-21T17:15:21.477

Link: CVE-2022-42831

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-362

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