Germany's federal cybersecurity agency today urged iOS users to immediately install the iOS and iPadOS security updates released by Apple on May 20 to patch two actively exploited zero-click security vulnerabilities impacting the default email app.
"Due to the criticality of the vulnerabilities, the BSI recommends that the respective security update be installed on all affected systems immediately," the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) said.
Cybersecurity startup ZecOps disclosed the bugs (zero-days at the time of the disclosure) after discovering ongoing attacks that targeted iOS users since at least January 2018.
Attacks abusing the two bugs targeted high-profile targets
The two no-click vulnerabilities are a memory consumption issue tracked as CVE-2020-9819 that may lead to heap corruption and an out-of-bounds write issue tracked as CVE-2020-9818 which may lead to unexpected memory modification or application termination, both of them triggered after the Mail app processes a maliciously crafted mail message.
The MailDemon security flaws were addressed by Apple with the release of iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5 which come with improved memory handling and bounds checking.
"We believe that these attacks are correlative with at least one nation-state threat operator or a nation-state that purchased the exploit from a third-party researcher in a Proof of Concept (POC) grade and used ‘as-is’ or with minor modifications," ZecOps said at the time.
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