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.
tvOS 16.2
Released December 13, 2022
Accounts
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: A user may be able to view sensitive user information
Description: This issue was addressed with improved data protection.
CVE-2022-42843: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
AppleAVD
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to kernel code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2022-46694: Andrey Labunets and Nikita Tarakanov
AppleMobileFileIntegrity
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences
Description: This issue was addressed by enabling hardened runtime.
CVE-2022-42865: Wojciech Reguła (@_r3ggi) of SecuRing
AVEVideoEncoder
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2022-42848: ABC Research s.r.o
ImageIO
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2022-46693: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
ImageIO
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Parsing a maliciously crafted TIFF file may lead to disclosure of user information
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2022-42851: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
IOHIDFamily
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling.
CVE-2022-42864: Tommy Muir (@Muirey03)
IOMobileFrameBuffer
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2022-46690: John Aakerblom (@jaakerblom)
iTunes Store
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An issue existed in the parsing of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2022-42837: Weijia Dai (@dwj1210) of Momo Security
Entry added June 7, 2023
Kernel
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation.
CVE-2022-46689: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Kernel
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Connecting to a malicious NFS server may lead to arbitrary code execution with kernel privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks.
CVE-2022-46701: Felix Poulin-Belanger
Kernel
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause kernel code execution
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2022-42842: pattern-f (@pattern_F_) of Ant Security Light-Year Lab
Kernel
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: An app with root privileges may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2022-42845: Adam Doupé of ASU SEFCOM
Kernel
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7.1.
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2022-48618: Apple
Entry added January 9, 2024
libxml2
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: An integer overflow was addressed through improved input validation.
CVE-2022-40303: Maddie Stone of Google Project Zero
libxml2
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: A remote user may be able to cause unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2022-40304: Ned Williamson and Nathan Wachholz of Google Project Zero
Preferences
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: An app may be able to use arbitrary entitlements
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2022-42855: Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero
Safari
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Visiting a website that frames malicious content may lead to UI spoofing
Description: A spoofing issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2022-46695: KirtiKumar Anandrao Ramchandani
Software Update
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: A user may be able to elevate privileges
Description: An access issue existed with privileged API calls. This issue was addressed with additional restrictions.
CVE-2022-42849: Mickey Jin (@patch1t)
Weather
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information
Description: The issue was addressed with improved handling of caches.
CVE-2022-42866: an anonymous researcher
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing
Description: A spoofing issue existed in the handling of URLs. This issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2022-46705: Hyeon Park (@tree_segment) of Team ApplePIE
Entry added June 7, 2023
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), 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: 245521
CVE-2022-42867: Maddie Stone of Google Project Zero
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 245466
CVE-2022-46691: an anonymous researcher
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may bypass Same Origin Policy
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 246783
CVE-2022-46692: KirtiKumar Anandrao Ramchandani
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may result in the disclosure of process memory
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2022-42852: hazbinhotel working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
WebKit Bugzilla: 246942
CVE-2022-46696: Samuel Groß of Google V8 Security
WebKit Bugzilla: 247562
CVE-2022-46700: Samuel Groß of Google V8 Security
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks.
CVE-2022-46698: Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) of SSD Secure Disclosure Labs & DNSLab, Korea Univ.
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
WebKit Bugzilla: 247420
CVE-2022-46699: Samuel Groß of Google V8 Security
WebKit Bugzilla: 244622
CVE-2022-42863: an anonymous researcher
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K, Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later), and Apple TV HD
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.1.
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved state handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 248266
CVE-2022-42856: Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group
Additional recognition
Kernel
We would like to acknowledge Zweig of Kunlun Lab for their assistance.
Safari Extensions
We would like to acknowledge Oliver Dunk and Christian R. of 1Password for their assistance.
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge an anonymous researcher and scarlet for their assistance.