CVE-2022-22587 vulnerability in Apple Products
Published on March 18, 2022
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Apple Memory Corruption Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Apple IOMobileFrameBuffer contains a memory corruption vulnerability which can allow a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by February 11, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-22587 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?
The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
CVE-2022-22587 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-22587
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Affected Versions
Apple iOS and iPadOS:- Version unspecified and below 15.3 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 12.2 is affected.
- Version unspecified and below 11.6 is affected.
Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.