High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 18, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-22591

Description

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.2. A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

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Affected products

Apple Inc./macOS Montereyllm-fuzzy
Range: <12.2
Apple Inc./macOSv5
Range: unspecified

Patches

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References

support.apple.com/en-us/HT213054nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory

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