Ios 18.6.2 – System-Wide Trust Collapse via Anchor Corruption and Ats Reset
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A GitHub repository claims to have discovered a system-wide trust collapse vulnerability in iOS 18.6.2, sparking debate among commenters about the legitimacy and implications of the findings.
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I came across this while debugging the "Malformed anchor records, not an array" log message on iOS 18.6.2 and seeing weird behavior: some parts of the system suddenly rejecting certificates with an anchor error (the MDM layer) while other parts accepted them just fine (Safari). So that's n=2 for something being wrong with the trust system in recent iOS versions.
Edit:
"Apple A17 Pro Chip Hardware Flaw?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45160947
"iOS 18.5 Bluetooth Privacy Vulnerabilities" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933435
Both of these submissions are [flagged]. I suspect that OP takes iPhone device logs and feeds the to an LLM to come up with security issues.
Thanks for doing the digging. Unfortunately HN doesn't let you retract submissions, otherwise I would.
Can others check logs on MacOS and iOS devices?