8.8

CVE-2022-3970: apple ipados Numeric Errors

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighModified
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2022-3970MGASA-2022-0448UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3970
Published 13-11-2022Last modified 15-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-3970 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Numeric Errors vulnerability in apple ipados. EPSS estimates a 1.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
45/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.34%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 4
DLA-3278-1DSA-5333-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12510-1RHSA-2023:2340RHSA-2023:2883SUSE-SU-2022:4248-1

Timeline

  1. 13-11-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function TIFFReadRGBATileExt of the file libtiff/tif_getimage.c. The manipulation leads to integer overflow. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 227500897dfb07fb7d27f7aa570050e62617e3be. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-213549 was assigned to this vulnerability.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.34%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

71%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 1.33% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.34%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugs.chromium.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Apple4 products
Debian2 products
Alpine1 product
  • tiff< 4.4.0-r1 | < 4.4.0-r2 | < 4.5.0-r0
Libtiff1 product
Mageia1 product
  • libtiff< 4.2.0-1.12.mga8
Netapp1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • tiff< 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11+esm6 | < 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.8+esm8 | < 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.9 | < 4.1.0+git191117-2ubuntu0.20.04.7 | < 4.3.0-6ubuntu0.3
Unspecified1 product

8 vendors · 12 products

References

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