Zero-Click Exploit in iPhones
Make sure you update your iPhones:
Citizen Lab says two zero-days fixed by Apple today in emergency security updates were actively abused as part of a zero-click exploit chain (dubbed BLASTPASS) to deploy NSO Group’s Pegasus commercial spyware onto fully patched iPhones.
The two bugs, tracked as CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-41061, allowed the attackers to infect a fully-patched iPhone running iOS 16.6 and belonging to a Washington DC-based civil society organization via PassKit attachments containing malicious images.
“We refer to the exploit chain as BLASTPASS. The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim,” Citizen Lab said.
“The exploit involved PassKit attachments containing malicious images sent from an attacker iMessage account to the victim.”
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Fazal Majid • September 13, 2023 10:03 AM
That’s why Google wrote a secure parser for file formats, Wuffs:
https://github.com/google/wuffs
A ridiculous number of iOS vulnerabilities stem from parsers, apart from the general decline in Apple quality control, they are also clearly not fuzzing their code adequately.