CVE-2022-46689A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.2, macOS Monterey 12.6.2, macOS Ventura 13.1,…
- 7.0HighCVSS base score
- 48.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
A race condition was addressed with additional validation. This issue is fixed in tvOS 16.2, macOS Monterey 12.6.2, macOS Ventura 13.1, macOS Big Sur 11.7.2, iOS 15.7.2 and iPadOS 15.7.2, iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2, watchOS 9.2. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
Show the exploits1
Metasploit modules1 module
- macOS Dirty Cow Arbitrary File Write Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/osx/local/mac_dirty_cowRank excellentdisclosed 17 Dec 2022
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 48.2% · top 1.1% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Affected products
References
References14
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213535 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213532 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213530 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213531 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213536 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213534 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213533 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- 20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-1 iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-2 iOS 15.7.2 and iPadOS 15.7.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-6 macOS Big Sur 11.7.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-4 macOS Ventura 13.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-7 tvOS 16.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-5 macOS Monterey 12.6.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 20221220 APPLE-SA-2022-12-13-8 watchOS 9.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-49478 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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