Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-46712 - Use After Free vulnerability in Apple Macos

CVSS 7.8 - HIGH

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

apple

CWE-416

NVD

Published: 2023-02-27

Updated: 2023-03-08

Summary

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13. An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or potentially execute code with kernel privileges.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
OS	Apple Apple Macos - Apple Macos 1.0 Apple Macos 7.5.3 Apple Macos 7.6 Apple Macos 7.6.1 Apple Macos 8.0 Apple Macos 8.1 Apple Macos 8.5 Apple Macos 8.6 Apple Macos 9 Apple Macos 9.0 Apple Macos 10.15.7 Apple Macos 11.0 Apple Macos 11.0.1 Apple Macos 11.1 Apple Macos 11.1.0 Apple Macos 11.2 Apple Macos 11.2.1 Apple Macos 11.3 Apple Macos 11.3.1 Apple Macos 11.4 Apple Macos 11.5 Apple Macos 11.6 Apple Macos 11.6.1 Apple Macos 11.6.2 Apple Macos 11.6.3 Apple Macos 11.6.5 Apple Macos 11.6.6 Apple Macos 11.6.7 Apple Macos 11.6.8 Apple Macos 11.7 Apple Macos 11.7.1 Apple Macos 11.7.2 Apple Macos 11.7.3 Apple Macos 11.7.5 Apple Macos 11.7.6 Apple Macos 11.7.7 Apple Macos 11.7.9 Apple Macos 12.0 Apple Macos 12.0.0 Apple Macos 12.0.1 Apple Macos 12.1 Apple Macos 12.2 Apple Macos 12.2.1 Apple Macos 12.3 Apple Macos 12.4 Apple Macos 12.5 Apple Macos 12.5.1 Apple Macos 12.6 Apple Macos 12.6.1 Apple Macos 12.6.2 Apple Macos 12.6.3 Apple Macos 12.6.4 Apple Macos 12.6.5 Apple Macos 12.6.6 Apple Macos 12.6.7 Apple Macos 12.6.8 Apple Macos 12.7 Apple Macos 12.7.1 Apple Macos 12.7.2 Apple Macos 12.7.3 Apple Macos 12.7.4 Apple Macos 12.7.5 Apple Macos 12.7.6	77

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-416 - Use After Free

References

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213488