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About the security content of iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 (support.apple.com)
3 points by offmycloud 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> Passwords

> (…)

> Impact: An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to alter network traffic

> Description: This issue was addressed by using HTTPS when sending information over the network.

What the heck? I’m really curious about that security flaw. Passwords is a new app (extracted from an also recent pane in System Settings). Why (and what) was it doing anything over the network without HTTPS?





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