Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-22638

Medium

Published: 18 March 2022

Published
18 March 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0102 77.6th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-22638 is a medium-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15.4, iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, macOS Big Sur 11.6.5, Security Update 2022-003 Catalina, watchOS 8.5, macOS Monterey 12.3. An attacker in a privileged position…

more

may be able to perform a denial of service attack.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

apple
ipados
≤ 15.4
apple
iphone os
≤ 15.4
apple
mac os x
10.15.7 · 10.15 — 10.15.7
apple
macos
10.15.7 · 11.6 — 11.6.5 · 12.0 — 12.3
apple
tvos
≤ 15.4
apple
watchos
≤ 8.5

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References