{"id":276125,"date":"2026-06-19T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/older-iphones-vulnerable-to-a-flaw-apple-cant-fix\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:50:31","slug":"older-iphones-vulnerable-to-a-flaw-apple-cant-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/older-iphones-vulnerable-to-a-flaw-apple-cant-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Older iPhones vulnerable to a flaw Apple can\u2019t fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/older-iphones-vulnerable-to-a-flaw-apple-cant-fix\">Older iPhones vulnerable to a flaw Apple can\u2019t fix<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/older-iphones-vulnerable-to-a-flaw-apple-cant-fix\">https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/older-iphones-vulnerable-to-a-flaw-apple-cant-fix<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-19 11:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"mashable.com\">mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a vulnerability with older iPhones that Apple can&#8217;t patch.<\/p>\n<p>The team at Paradigm Shift, an independent European cybersecurity firm, published its\u00a0findings on the flaw, which it calls usbliter8, on its blog on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers exploited flaws in the USB controller and the device&#8217;s firmware to override the boot process (when the phone turns on) and gain control of the device before iOS loads, and even run unauthorized software. <\/p>\n<p>        <span class=\"font-bold text-primary-400\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"ml-1\">Apple isn&#8217;t done with the iPhone Air. What&#8217;s in store for the Air 2?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The issue exists within SecureROM, the code that runs when an iPhone turns on, which is embedded in certain chips. Apple can&#8217;t fix these flaws, as the code can&#8217;t be extracted from the chips. <\/p>\n<p>Paradigm Shift reported the vulnerability to Apple before publishing it.<\/p>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"text-gradient-fuchsia-secondary\">Mashable Light Speed<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p>The impacted chips are A12 and A13. Here are the impacted iPhone models with A12 and A13 chips, as reported by AppleInsider:<\/p>\n<p>S4 and S5 chips, which power some iPad and Apple Watch models, are also affected. Here are the impacted models, according to AppleInsider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Eighth and ninth generation iPad<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Third-generation iPad Air<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fifth-generation iPad Mini<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>First and second generation 11-inch iPad Pro<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Third and fourth generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>First-generation Apple Watch SE<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Apple Watch Series 4 and 5<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paradigm Shift notes that technical support for the A12X and A12Z chips is possible but hasn&#8217;t been implemented; this also affects the 2018 and 2019 iPad Pro models, AppleInsider reported.<\/p>\n<p>The exploit requires physical access to the iPhone. Paradigm Shift wrote that it opens up different paths that could allow attackers to compromise Apple&#8217;s Secure Enclave Processor, which stores encrypted data and passcodes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As these vulnerabilities reside in immutable code, affected users should be aware that migrating to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/older-iphones-vulnerable-to-a-flaw-apple-cant-fix\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older iPhones vulnerable to a flaw Apple can\u2019t fix https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/older-iphones-vulnerable-to-a-flaw-apple-cant-fix Publish Date: 2026-06-19 11:41:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/068r492vZpV34rtBwj5m3mi\/hero-image.fill.size_1200x675.v1781876995.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[31,89,69,27],"class_list":["post-276125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-exploit","tag-flaw","tag-ios","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276125"}],"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=276125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276127,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276125\/revisions\/276127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}