Apple fixed the ninth actively exploited zero-day this year

Apple released security updates that addressed the ninth zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in the wild since the start of the year.

Apple has addressed the ninth zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks in the wild since the start of the year. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42827, is an out-of-bounds write issue that can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

The flaw was reported to Apple by an anonymous researcher, the company addressed it with improved bounds checking in iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.

“Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.” reads the advisory published by Apple.

The vulnerability impacts iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 5th generation and later.

Apple users are recommended to immediately update their devices to mitigate exposure to attack attempts.

Apple has addressed other eight 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
August 2022: CVE-2022-32894
September 2022: CVE-2022-32917.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Apple zero-day)

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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”.