Apple Emergency Update for New Zero-Day Used to Hack iPhones

The Apple Emergency Update was deployed to address a critical Zero-day vulnerability impacting iOS and iPadOS versions earlier than 17.0.3. This flaw, designated as CVE-2023-42824, could potentially allow malicious actors to escalate their privileges on compromised devices. The vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild, prompting Apple to roll out security patches. The flaw resided in the kernel and could be abused by a local attacker to elevate their privileges, which Apple sought to rectify with improved checks in the update.Read More..