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CVE-2022-32917 — Apple Ipados

CISA KEV
CVSS v3.1 7.8 (HIGH) · EPSS 0.5% (higher than 66.9% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2022-09-20

As of 2025-10-23, CVE-2022-32917 is a HIGH-severity vulnerability in Apple Ipados, CVSS v3.1 7.8, EPSS 0.5% (66.9th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-09-14), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2022-10-05. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2022-32917, most recently “Coruna iOS Exploit Kit — 23 Exploits Across 5 Chains Targeting iOS 13-17.2.1 (CVE-2021-30952, CVE-2023-41974, CVE-2023-43000 + 20 More)”.

Last updated: 2025-10-23

What is CVE-2022-32917?

The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.6, iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7, iOS 16, macOS Big Sur 11.7. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited..

The record classifies CVE-2022-32917 under weakness class CWE-787. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 3 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 1454 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score
7.8 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST)
0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66.9% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV
Listed since 2022-09-14, federal remediation deadline 2022-10-05
Threadlinqs priority
9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published
2022-09-20, last modified 2025-10-23

Is CVE-2022-32917 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2022-32917 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-09-14, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2022-10-05 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 32 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

How to fix CVE-2022-32917

The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2022-32917. Patch reference: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213446. Vendor advisory: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213443. Because CVE-2022-32917 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2022-10-05. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2022-32917

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2022-32917, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

Sources

Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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