A security researcher has discovered a bug in the operating system “iOS 15.2”, the latest update to the operating system that “iPhone” phones run, its roots are present since the “iOS 14.7” update and perhaps earlier, related to a vulnerability that can be used to permanently disable the “iPhone” device.
He explained that the vulnerability is in HomeKit, a software framework from «Camel“It allows users to control and communicate with smart home devices using Apple devices, and security researcher Tervor Spinolas found that by changing the name of the device that connects the iPhone to the home device through HomeKit to a large string of characters, 50,000 characters for example, this will lead To disable the iPhone associated with it, according to the “ZNet” website, which specializes in technology.
The vulnerability might cause the iPhone to stop working irreversibly
To make matters worse, since the device name will be backed up to the user’s iCloud account, restoring the «Iphone» Re-login to the iCloud account associated with the HomeKit device will once more cause the same vulnerability, meaning it will be permanently disabled.
“The vulnerability poses a significant risk to iOS users’ data, but the public can protect themselves from its worst effects by disabling home devices in the Control Center in order to protect the data on the phone,” says Tervor Spinolas.
Apple confirms that it is working to solve the dangerous vulnerability
Tervor Spinolas decided to announce this vulnerability following initially notifying Apple on August 10, and Apple promised to fix it before 2022. About the error, early January 2022.
“The public should be aware of this vulnerability and how to prevent it from being exploited, rather than hiding it,” Tervor Spinolas writes on his own online montage.
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