CVE-2022-42827

What is affected

Vendor	Apple
Product	iOS and iPadOS
Weakness	CWE-20, CWE-787

The vulnerability

Apple iOS and iPadOS kernel contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability which can allow an application to perform code execution with kernel privileges.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 15 November 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 13 Nov 2026, 03:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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