Vulnerability · Published May 26, 2022 · Assigned by apple

CVE-2022-26765

Medium 4.7

In plain English

A medium-severity race condition in watchOS from Apple. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.7Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 89.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apple	watchOS	unspecified – before 8.6
Apple	watchOS	unspecified – before 15.5
Apple	watchOS	unspecified – before 12.4
Apple	watchOS	unspecified – before 15.5

Weakness: CWE-362 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

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