points by dspillett 1 day ago | 0 comments
Don't underplay it either though: with a compromised but unrevoked signing cert all it takes is a successful phish, or some problem to allow DNS poisoning (or hack a wireless AP, or …) to direct you to a fake site or (potentially worse as it might be less immediately noticeable and could quietly collect credentials/data for a while) send your automated tools to a malicious API.
It may not be directly exploitable on its own, which is the impression some reports give, but it is a serious hole to leave open especially with the current rate of old security issues being found, as it could be _incredibly_ useful to a malicious actor as part of an exploit chain.
[–] commandersaki 1 day ago
Doesn't affect app bundles though, only *nix commands. This'd be detected pretty quickly, at least by the significant portion of patched devices.
[–] dannyw 1 day ago
Unless you're clever enough to only poison user agents known to be macOS and CLI. You'd probably get by.
xz-tools was only caught because it had a bug causing slow startups and someone was micro-benchmarking Postgres and decided to dive in further.
[–] throwawaysoxjje 1 day ago
The cert is provided before the user-agent string is
[–] jfyi 1 day ago