wraggster
August 19th, 2019, 21:43
Around 3 hours ago, pwn20wnd who is one of unc0ver’s authors (together with Sam Bingner (https://twitter.com/sbingner)) took the community by surprise and tweeted out that unc0ver 3.5.0 got released (https://twitter.com/Pwn20wnd/status/1163102269518204930) with support for iOS 12.4 which is the latest version of iOS meaning that it’s obviously signed and ready to be installed.
Unlike other times when a new version of iOS got jailbroken, this time it wasn’t because a new exploit, making use of a previously disclosed vulnerability, got released but because sock_port (the exploit by Jake James (https://github.com/jakeajames/sock_port) used to jailbreak iOS 12.1.3-12.2) got unpatched on iOS 12.4 (https://twitter.com/Jakeashacks/status/1163103905254977536?s=20) (released on 22 July) after it was patched on iOS 12.3.
Apparently, this security blunder was discovered by Ahmed Aldeab (https://twitter.com/AldeabAhmed) 2 days ago and after it was verified by leading jailbreak developers, pwn20wnd got to work by updating and testing a new release of unc0ver presumably before Apple becomes aware of what happened and pushes a new version of iOS to patch the issue.
http://wololo.net/2019/08/18/jailbreaking-news-ios-12-4-the-latest-version-of-ios-gets-publicly-jailbroken-with-unc0ver-3-5-0-made-possible-by-apple-blunder-in-which-they-unpatched-a-vulnerability-fixed-in-ios-12-3/
Unlike other times when a new version of iOS got jailbroken, this time it wasn’t because a new exploit, making use of a previously disclosed vulnerability, got released but because sock_port (the exploit by Jake James (https://github.com/jakeajames/sock_port) used to jailbreak iOS 12.1.3-12.2) got unpatched on iOS 12.4 (https://twitter.com/Jakeashacks/status/1163103905254977536?s=20) (released on 22 July) after it was patched on iOS 12.3.
Apparently, this security blunder was discovered by Ahmed Aldeab (https://twitter.com/AldeabAhmed) 2 days ago and after it was verified by leading jailbreak developers, pwn20wnd got to work by updating and testing a new release of unc0ver presumably before Apple becomes aware of what happened and pushes a new version of iOS to patch the issue.
http://wololo.net/2019/08/18/jailbreaking-news-ios-12-4-the-latest-version-of-ios-gets-publicly-jailbroken-with-unc0ver-3-5-0-made-possible-by-apple-blunder-in-which-they-unpatched-a-vulnerability-fixed-in-ios-12-3/