The Outbreak: Day Zero Mac OS

Apple has release a new batch of security updates and has fixed three iOS zero-days that 'may have been actively exploited' by attackers.

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The three zero-days

Apple has patched a critical macOS zero-day (CVE-2021-30657) that has been exploited by Shlayer malware for months and has finally introduced/enabled the App Tracking Transparency feature and policy in iOS, iPadOS and tvOS. Apple has fixed a zero-day vulnerability in macOS exploited in the wild by Shlayer malware to bypass Apple's File Quarantine, Gatekeeper, and Notarization security checks and download second-stage.

Some mainframe programs were written to encode dates as the number of days since a 'zero date' of 1 January 1900, storing them as signed 16-bit binary integers. On 18 September 1989, these programs began to fail, the date being exactly 32,768 (2 15) days since the zero date. Values on and after this day do not fit into a signed 16-bit integer, but overflow and return negative values.

Two of the zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-1870 and CVE-2021-1871) are logic issues affecting the WebKit browser engine, which may allow a remote attacker to achieve code execution on devices running a vulnerable version of iOS or iPadOS (i.e., those prior to version 14.4).

The third zero-day (CVE-2021-1782) affects the operating systems' kernel. It is a race condition that can be exploited by a malicious application to elevate privileges on a vulnerable iPhone or iPad. CVE-2021-1782 also affects watchOS and tvOS, and has been fixed in the released updates (watchOS 7.3 and tvOS 14.4).

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An anonymous researcher has been credited with the reporting of all three flaws.

As per usual, Apple has decided not to share specific details about the flaws or the attack(s) they might be used for.

Zero-days exploited

Presumably, the attackers are using one or both of the WebKit flaws to execute an initial malicious payload on targeted devices, then the kernel vulnerability to achieve the necessary privileges to completely compromise the device and spy on targets' activities.

It's unknown whether the attacks are targeted or widespread. Apple has noted that additional details will be available soon. In the meantime, users are advised to update their devices to plug the exploited iOS zero-days.

In the last six months, similar iOS zero-days have been leveraged in targeted attacks flagged by the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Citizen Lab. The latter found them being used to install NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.

Apple has also released a security update for iCloud for Windows that fixes four vulnerabilities that may lead to arbitrary code execution or heap corruption, and Xcode, its integrated development environment for macOS, which fixes a path handling issue that could allow a malicious application to access arbitrary files on the host device while running an app that uses on-demand resources with Xcode.

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