CVE record · CVE-2022-48618

Time-of-check time-of-use race condition in Apple tvOS and others

CVSS 7.0 HighCriticalIn CISA KEVEPSS 0.0049 · 42nd percentile

Critical, because:

  • In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 31 Jan 2024: it is known to be exploited.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: apple) at 9 Jan 2024, 17:58 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Apple tvOS
  • affected unspecified to before 16.2 custom
Apple macOS
  • affected unspecified to before 13.1 custom
Apple iOS and iPadOS
  • affected unspecified to before 16.2 custom
Apple watchOS
  • affected unspecified to before 9.2 custom
Identifiers
CVE-2022-48618
CNA
apple
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-367
Published
9 Jan 2024
Updated
21 Oct 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.0 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Listed since 31 Jan 2024: known to be exploited.
  • EPSS 0.0049, the 42nd percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 9 Jan 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.