CVE-2022-26717

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15.5, watchOS 8.6, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 15.5, macOS Monterey 12.4, Safari 15.5, iTunes 12.12.4 for Windows. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected

Apple · macOS · watchOS

CVSS v3.1 NVD

8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

1.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 76th percentile

Published

2022-11-01

Updated

2025-05-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• theori-io/CVE-2022-26717-Safari-WebGL-Exploit61★ · 2022-05-19

Security advisories

• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213253
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213254
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213257
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213258
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213259
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213260

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2016-0189
• CVE-2016-7200
• CVE-2016-7201
• CVE-2022-32250
• CVE-2026-31431