Apple released security updates for iOS today (iOS 14.2) to fix three vulnerabilities (0day) detected in attacks on its users.
According to Shane Huntley, Director of Google Threat Analysis Team, the three iOS 0days are related to recent Chrome vulnerabilities and one 0day of Windows which Google had announced in the last two weeks.
Targeted exploitation in the wild similar to the other recently reported 0days. Not related to any election targeting.
- Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) November 5, 2020
Google did not provide details on who the attackers were or what their targets were.
According to its head teamof Google Project Zero, Ben Hawkes, whose team discovered and reported the attacks to Apple, the iOS 3 0days are:
- CVE-2020-27930 - a remote code execution issue in the iOS FontParser component that allows intruders to run code remotely on iOS devices.
- CVE-2020-27932 – μια ευπάθεια κλιμάκωσης προνομίων στον πυρήνα του iOS επιτρέπει στους εισβολείς να τρέξουν malicious κώδικα με δικαιώματα σε επίπεδο kernel.
- CVE-2020-27950 - leakage memory flaw in the iOS kernel that allows attackers to retrieve content from the kernel memory of an iOS device.
All three of them errorthey are believed to have been used together, allowing attackers to remotely jailbreak iPhones.