Apple Safari up to 15.5 WebKit out-of-bounds

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple Safari up to 15.5. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component WebKit. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-32912. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Apple Safari up to 15.5 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component WebKit. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 09/12/2022 by Jeonghoon Shin as HT213442 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.apple.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-32912. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The advisory points out:

Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Upgrading to version 16.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. The advisory contains the following remark:

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2022-35978). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.4

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Out-of-bounds
CWE: CWE-125 / CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Safari 16.0

Timelineinfo

06/09/2022 🔍
09/12/2022 +95 days 🔍
09/12/2022 +0 days 🔍
09/14/2022 +2 days 🔍
01/08/2026 +1212 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: HT213442
Researcher: Jeonghoon Shin
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-32912 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-32912
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-208507
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/14/2022 08:30
Updated: 01/08/2026 12:50
Changes: 09/14/2022 08:30 (13), 09/14/2022 08:31 (6), 09/14/2022 08:34 (27), 10/17/2022 00:03 (2), 10/17/2022 00:15 (11), 01/08/2026 01:02 (15), 01/08/2026 12:50 (1)
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