The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an Apple improper authentication bug, tracked as CVE-2022-48618, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
The vulnerability can allow an attacker with arbitrary read and write capability to bypass Pointer Authentication.
The IT giant addressed the issue with improved checks. The flaw is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.1, watchOS 9.2, iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2, tvOS 16.2.
Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.1.
