Apple fixed two new zero-day flaws exploited by threat actors

Apple addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities, exploited by threat actors, affecting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices.

Apple this week released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms to address two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by threat actors. Apple did not share details about these attacks.

The two flaws are:

CVE-2022-32893 – An out-of-bounds issue in WebKit. An attacker can trigger the flaw by tricking target devices into processing maliciously crafted web content to achieve arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.

CVE-2022-32894 – An out-of-bounds issue in the OS Kernel that could be exploited by a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with the highest privileges.

The vulnerabilities have been fixed with the release iOS 15.6.1, iPadOS 15.6.1, and macOS Monterey 12.5.1. The iOS and iPadOS updates are available for iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and later, and iPod touch (7th generation).

The IT giant solved both the vulnerabilities with improved bounds checking.

Apple has addressed other six zero-day vulnerabilities since January, below is the list of fixed issues:

January 2022: CVE-2022-22587 and CVE-2022-22594.
February 2022: CVE-2022-22620.
March 2022: CVE-2022-22674 and CVE-2022-22675.
May 2022: CVE-2022-22675

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.