CVE-2022-26769 is a memory corruption vulnerability affecting macOS Monterey 12.4, macOS Big Sur 11.6.6, and Security Update 2022-004 Catalina, allowing a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges due to insufficient input validation. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 10.15, < 10.15.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.15.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.15.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:security_update_2020:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.15.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:security_update_2020-001:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.15.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.15.7:security_update_2020-005:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.