The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system released late last month reintroduced a critical security bug that makes all iPhones and iPads that updated to iOS 12.4 vulnerable to malicious hackers. The vulnerability dubbed SockPuppet was first discovered by Ned Williamson, a security researcher at Google Project Zero and was subsequently patched by Apple when it released iOS 12.3 on May 13, or 99 days ago. To put it simply, this is one of the highest levels of security criticality you can get and its mind-blowing that Apple has reintroduced the vulnerability in the July 22 release of the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 12.4. On Monday, a security researcher known as Pwn20 published on GitHub an exploit, with the associated source code, that took advantage of the vulnerability to break into an iPhone, also known as jailbreak, in just a few minutes. The reintroduction of such a critical security vulnerability shows that there was something wrong that happened during the software quality validation process at Apple: The bug was known, successfully corrected and deployed in the iOS 12.3, but then reintroduced on version 12.4.
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