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A Zero Day Vulnerabilities in Apple iOS, iPadOS and macOS

Issued: 
Monday, 14 February, 2022
Last Revision: 
Monday, 14 February, 2022
Vendor: 
Severity Level: 
Summary: 

An urgent update has been released by Apple for iOS, iPadOS and macOS Monterey to patch a zero-day vulnerability.

  

The vulnerability has been tracked as CVE-2022-22620. Upon processing malicious web content on affected devices, attackers can execute arbitrary code.

 

As per Apple and other security researcher, there is high possibility of active exploitation of this vulnerability by threat actors.

 

CVE/Vulnerability

Description 

CVSS3.0 Score

CVE-2022-22620

A use after free Vulnerability

n/a

 

 

Table 1: Vulnerability details 

 

 

 

CVE/Vulnerability

Affected Product(s)

CVE-2022-22620

iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, iPod touch (7th generation) and desktops and notebooks running prior version of macOS Monterey 12.2.1.

 

 

                                                                                      Table 2: Vulnerable versions 

Recommendation: 

We encourage the Organizations and individual users to update the affected products with the vendor provided updates (iOS 15.3.1, iPadOS 15.3.1 and macOS Monterey 12.2.1) as soon as possible.