CVE-2022-26765 (GCVE-0-2022-26765)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-05-26 19:21
Modified
2025-05-30 19:12
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • A malicious attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apple watchOS Version: unspecified   < 8.6
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   Apple watchOS Version: unspecified   < 15.5
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   Apple watchOS Version: unspecified   < 12.4
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