{"id":275839,"date":"2026-06-19T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/theres-a-new-iphone-exploit-that-apple-cant-patch\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:50:12","slug":"theres-a-new-iphone-exploit-that-apple-cant-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/theres-a-new-iphone-exploit-that-apple-cant-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a new iPhone exploit that Apple can&#8217;t patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/iphone-usbliter8-exploit-3679320\/\">There&#8217;s a new iPhone exploit that Apple can&#8217;t patch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/iphone-usbliter8-exploit-3679320\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/iphone-usbliter8-exploit-3679320\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-19 06:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new BootROM vulnerability has been discovered in older iPhones using the A12 and A13 chips.<\/li>\n<li>It uses a hardware bug in the USB controller to gain access to an iPhone\u2019s startup process.<\/li>\n<li>It can\u2019t be patched, and the only way to mitigate it is to switch to a device with a newer processor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>iPhones are not immune to vulnerabilities and exploits. They\u2019ve previously suffered hardware-level exploits like checkm8, and widespread, easy-to-use ones like DarkSword. Now, researchers have found and exploited a new hardware-level BootROM vulnerability on iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Paradigm Shift published an extremely detailed post explaining the \u201cusbliter8\u201d exploit, which leverages a hardware bug in the USB controller and a firmware configuration flaw.<\/p>\n<p>The exploit takes advantage of a flaw in the iPhone\u2019s USB hardware. By sending specially crafted USB data during startup, an attacker can confuse the controller into writing data to the wrong area of memory. This occurs before iOS loads, allowing the attacker to gain control of the boot process and run unauthorized code on the device.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">The attack is a bit harder to pull off on devices powered by Apple\u2019s A13 chip because Apple added an extra security feature called Pointer Authentication (PAC). This protection is designed to stop attackers from hijacking important parts of the processor.<\/p>\n<p>However, the researchers say they were still able to find a way around this protection and successfully exploit the chip.<\/p>\n<p><h2>Why Apple can\u2019t fix this<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_gh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" title=\"Apple A13 processor\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Apple-A13-processor.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Apple-A13-processor-675w-380h.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Apple-A13-processor-64w-36h.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Apple-A13-processor-1000w-562h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Apple-A13-processor-300w-170h.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Apple-A13-processor-840w-472h.jpg 840w\" alt=\"Apple A13 processor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Apple-A13-processor.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Android often gets criticized for security issues, but the usbliter8 exploit is the kind of flaw that no software update can fix. The vulnerability lies in low-level hardware code permanently built into the affected chips. This code can\u2019t be changed after a device leaves the factory, meaning Apple can\u2019t fix the vulnerability through a software update.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, devices that are vulnerable today will remain vulnerable forever. The only way to completely avoid the flaw is to use&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/iphone-usbliter8-exploit-3679320\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new iPhone exploit that Apple can&#8217;t patch https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/iphone-usbliter8-exploit-3679320\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-19 06:29:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/iPhone-11-Pro-Max-Rear-in-Hand-e1569854606506.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[31,89,69,57,27],"class_list":["post-275839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-exploit","tag-flaw","tag-ios","tag-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275841,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275839\/revisions\/275841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}