
Apple has rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari to address several security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day bug being exploited in the wild.
tracked CVE-2023-38606This flaw exists in the kernel and allows malicious apps to potentially modify sensitive kernel state. The company said it addressed the issue by improving state management.
“Apple is aware of reports that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released prior to iOS 15.7.1,” the tech giant said in its advisory.
CVE-2023-38606 is notable for being the third security vulnerability discovered since 2019 related to Operation Triangulation, an advanced mobile cyber espionage campaign targeting iOS devices using a zero-click exploit chain. Two of his other zero-days, CVE-2023-32434 and CVE-2023-32435, were patched by Apple last month.
Kaspersky researchers Valentin Pashkov, Mikhail Vinogradov, Georgy Kucherin, Leonid Bezvershenko, and Boris Larin are credited with discovering and reporting this flaw.
Updates are available for the following devices and operating systems:
- iOS 16.6 and iPadOS 16.6 – iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 5th generation and later
- iOS 15.7.8 and iPadOS 15.7.8 – iPhone 6s (all models), iPhone 7 (all models), iPhone SE (1st generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini (4th generation), and iPod touch (7th generation)
- macOS Ventura 13.5, macOS Monterey 12.6.8, and macOS Big South 11.7.9
- tvOS 16.6 – Apple TV 4K (all models) and Apple TV HD, and
- watchOS 9.6 – Apple Watch Series 4 and later
With the latest patch, Apple has resolved a total of 11 zero-days affecting its software since early 2023. Also, this comes two weeks after the company published an emergency fix for a WebKit remote code execution bug (CVE-2023-37450) that could lead to arbitrary code execution.