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CVE-2022-22646

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-22646 is a macOS Monterey vulnerability that allowed a malicious application to modify protected parts of the file system. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires user interaction (UI:R) for a local attacker (AV:L) to achieve high integrity impact (I:H). Apple addressed this by removing the vulnerable code in macOS Monterey 12.2. There is currently no public exploit code, evidence of active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 12.0.0, < 12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 12.2CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0020 is in the 13th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

support.apple.com / en-us/HT213054
Release NotesVendor Advisory