Vulnerability · Published Nov 1, 2022 · Assigned by apple

CVE-2022-32938

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity path traversal in macOS from Apple. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura 13. A shortcut may be able to check the existence of an arbitrary path on the file system.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Apple macOS unspecified – before 13
Apple macOS unspecified – before 16.1

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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