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CVE-2022-48503

Apple · Multiple Products · Apple Multiple Products Unspecified Vulnerability

Verdict
Patch soon · actively exploited, reachable from the internet without credentials, and in the top 25% of CVEs by near-term exploitation probability

Added to CISA KEV 2025-10-20 · exploited in the wild for 342 days

What an attacker can reach How likely Time What CISA says to do Sources All 545

What an attacker can reach

CVSS 8.8 HIGH. The score is a summary; these three components are the part that decides whether something scanning the internet can use it.

Attack vectornetworkreachable over the network, with no local access needed
Privileges requirednoneneeds no credentials at all
User interactionrequiredneeds a user to click, load or submit something first
Base vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
WeaknessCWE-129

This describes the vulnerability. It says nothing about whether your systems run it.

How likely

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.0321, which places it in the top 25% of all tracked CVEs. The percentile is the more useful half: 0.18 in absolute terms sounds low until you know most of the internet-facing software in the world scores under that.

EPSS probability0.0321
Percentile0.877 — top 25%

Time

Added to KEV2025-10-20
Days exploited342
Federal remediation duenot set
Ransomware useno known ransomware campaign use

What CISA says to do

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15.6, watchOS 8.7, iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6, macOS Monterey 12.5, Safari 15.6. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Sources