Security News > 2022 > December > Microsoft dishes the dirt on Apple’s “Achilles heel” shortly after fixing similar Windows bug
When we woke up this morning, our cybersecurity infofeed was awash with "News" that Apple had just patched a security hole variously described a "Gnarly bug", a "Critical flaw" that could leave your Macs "Defenceless", and the "Achilles' heel of macOS".
This isn't a new bug, it's just some new information about a bug that Apple fixed last week.
CVE-2022-44698: Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability This bug is also known to have been expoited in the wild.
To be fair to Microsoft, the researcher who responsibly disclosed the Gatekeeper flaw to Apple, and who wrote the just-published report, didn't use the words "Critical" or "Defenceless" to describe either the bug or the condition in which it placed your Mac.
Although naming the bug Achilles and headlining it as as an Achilles' heel was probably a metaphorical leap too far.
In both these cases - Microsoft's own zero-day bug, and Apple's bug as found by Microsoft - the security bypass flaws are now patched.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-13 | CVE-2022-44698 | Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft products Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability | 5.4 |