A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apple iOS (Smartphone Operating System) (affected version not known). This affects some unknown functionality of the component USB Charger Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 06/03/2013 by Billy Lau, Yeongjin Jang and Chengyu Song as Mactans: Injecting Malware into iOS Devices via Malicious Chargers as not defined talk (Black Hat USA). The advisory is shared at blackhat.com. The public release happened without involvement of Apple. The exploitability is told to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a private exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $25k-$100k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/21/2018). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue. Due to its background and reception, this vulnerability has a historic impact.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Further details are available at news.cnet.com.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Apple

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• iOS

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• commercial

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