⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2025-10-20. Federal agencies required to patch by 2025-11-10. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable..

CVE-2022-48503Improper Validation of Array Index in Apple IOS AND Ipados

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.33%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2025-10-20
Due 2025-11-10
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedAug 14
KEV addedOct 20
KEV dueNov 10
CISA Required Action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages11 packages

CVEListV5apple/tvosunspecified15.6
NVDapple/tvos< 15.6
CVEListV5apple/macosunspecified12.5
NVDapple/macos12.0.012.5
CVEListV5apple/safariunspecified15.6

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-hqf2-wqhm-8v23: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks2023-08-15
CVEList
CVE-2022-48503: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks2023-08-14
OSV
CVE-2022-48503: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks2023-08-14
VulnCheck
Apple Multiple Products Unspecified Vulnerability2022

📋Vendor Advisories

8
CISA
Apple Multiple Products Unspecified Vulnerability2025-10-20
Red Hat
webkitgtk: improper bounds checking leading to arbitrary code execution2023-06-29
Apple
CVE-2022-48503: Safari 15.62022-07-20
Apple
CVE-2022-48503: tvOS 15.62022-07-20
Apple
CVE-2022-48503: iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.62022-07-20
CVE-2022-48503 — Improper Validation of Array Index | cvebase