Re:A Message about iOS Security
by Abishek_Muthian on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:49AM
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Semi-unthethered jailbreaks exist for 32-bit iOS devices running upto iOS 10.3.3. I wonder whether complete exploit chain as detailed in the project zero wasn't possible for 32-bit devices or the attackers just didn't care about those devices.
Also, note that the exploit used in chain 4 was unpatched when Google discovered it. It looks like the reason it doesn't support newer iOS versions is because they abandoned it in favour of the cleaner chain 5, which entirely obsoletes it in terms of versions and devices targeted. Just this pair of exploits alone suggest that the attack was live in the wild for at least a year.
In theory I suspect that most recent exploit could be backported to cover all the iOS versions covered by all the other exploits too (and some they missed) but they just didn't bother.