Published exploit for iOS 12.1 and below

Jailbreak enthusiast Linus Henze has published an exploit for iOS 12.1 and below that takes advantage of a vulnerability in Safari. How

Henze notes in his tweet, Apple has already released a patch in the latest version of WebKit, so this is not a 0-day exploit, but rather a 1-day exploit.

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The exploit is designed to work on both iOS andand on macOS, but additional settings are required to work correctly on iOS. But, according to the description on the GitHub page, he plans to further refine the exploit. Henze also asked “not to do bad things with it” and noted that, “if you are an ordinary user, then this will be useless for you”.

Although jailbreakers benefit from vulnerabilities insecurity and all the new exploits, this does not mean that the public release of iOS 12.1 jailbreak is just around the corner. KeenLab had previously demonstrated that such a jailbreak was even possible, but did not publish it and kept it for further testing.

Given these circumstances, we do not recommendYou need to upgrade to iOS 12 if your device is already flashed. If you have not installed jailbreak yet, but want to do it, we also recommend that you stay on the lowest possible version of iOS.