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A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS and iPadOS up to 14.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component SpringBoard. The manipulation leads to privileges management. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. It is recommended to replace the affected component with an alternative. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in Apple iOS and iPadOS up to 14.0 (Smartphone Operating System) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component SpringBoard. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 09/16/2020 as 34938 as not defined exploit (Website). The advisory is shared at 0day.today. The public release happened without involvement of Apple. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue. The advisory points out:

Attacker can access device SpringBoard, run default iOS apps, run 3rd party iOS apps installed from AppStore, open Photos, Reminders, Notes, Email, and all other iOS apps, make and receive calls / sms, etc.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at 0day.today. It is declared as functional. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The advisory illustrates:

What you receive: The source code of exploit written in TheOS tweak platform https://theos.dev Exploit works on jailbroken devices (checkm8 bootrom exploit - checkra.in jailbreak)

The problem might be mitigated by replacing the product with as an alternative.

If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Apple

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• iOS
• iPadOS

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• 14.0

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• commercial

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