Niklas Baumstark – a well-known security researcher and developer – has recently confirmed on Twitter that a particular bug released to the community can be exploited through Safari. Now, it’s something that can result in creation of JailbreakMe, a new jailbreak experience for the iOS devices running iOS 11.3.1.
The tweet from Niklas confirmed that he’s ‘just exploited the bug of @i41nbeer via Safari RCE’ and this suggests anyone having relevant skills and interest could take it to the next step by coming up with a web-based solution, releasing it to the community in the form of JailbreakMe 5.0.
More tweets from Niklas continued to mention that particular bug using its reference number ‘CVE-2018-4233’ and that’s quite interesting because the number is referenced by Apple as WebKit bug Samuel Groß from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative raised, rather than Ian Beer from Project Zero.
As Niklas clarified himself, it appears that this process would involve back-to-back exploiting of two bugs, one from Samuel Groß as mentioned above and then the other from Ian Beer.
Whatever the case, it appears that a bug exists that’s attributable to the iOS 11.3.1 version and can be exploited through Safari due to its very nature. What that means is that a simple and easy-to-use jailbreak can be expected to come out which won’t really need people to sideload IPAs on their devices and re-sign apps after every 7 days. Among all those jailbreaks that have ever been released to jailbreak community, original JailbreakMe – the Safari based solution – has turned out to be a popular alternative and it’s probably the easiest one as well. As a matter of fact, it’s the simplicity of this safari-based jailbreak that really made it this popular in the entire community.
As of now, besides a tweet from Niklas and some follow-up tweets, there isn’t much information available on Niklas’ intentions and whether the new jailbreak will see the light of day or not. Niklas is very well-known in the security research circles and he was quite successful in several Pwn2Own competitions. But, as far as we know, there is no jailbreak activity on his credit of late and nothing of the type has been credited to him either. We can still hope that someone might jump in and take things further from here on to push something miraculous into the community.
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