CVE-2022-32799An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-005 Catalina, macOS…

5.9MediumCVSS base score
1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
NonePublic exploitsnone known yet

Description

An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Security Update 2022-005 Catalina, macOS Monterey 12.5. A user in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive information.

Timeline

2022
9 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022
ID reserved
By apple
23 Sept 20224 months later
23 Sept 2022· 4 months later
Published
2025
22 May 20253 years later
22 May 2025· 3 years later
Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2022-32799, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
CISA-ADPADP (enrichment)	3.1	Medium5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVDNVD · Modified	3.1	Medium5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC: Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.

Affected products

Apple · macOS
- affected unspecified – < 12.5
Apple · macOS
- affected unspecified – < 2022

References2

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213345 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213343 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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Record last updated 22 May 2025, 14:32 UTC.