CVE-2022-46697 (GCVE-0-2022-46697)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-15 00:00
Modified
2025-04-21 13:49
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Summary
An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.1. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apple macOS Version: unspecified   < 13.1
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