Security News > 2020 > June > Apple Jailbreak Zero-Day Gets a Patch

Apple quietly pushed out a small but important update for operating systems across all of its devices, including a patch for a zero-day exploit used in an iPhone jailbreak tool released last week.

Jailbreak tools take advantage of vulnerabilities in iOS to allow users root access and full control of their device, in order to load programs and code from outside of the Apple walled garden.

The team behind jailbreak tool said at the time that they expected Apple to find the flaw and release a patch for it, calling it the "Nature" of the business, a hacker called Pwn20wnd told Vice Motherboard.

Other Apple experts on Twitter encouraged people who don't want to jailbreak their iPhones to make sure they install the patch, also telling users that it fixes the latest Unc0ver jailbreak tool.

"Apple released iOS 13.5 update fixing Zero Day exploit used by Unc0ver Jailbreak," tweeted iRobin Pro, an Apple expert and blogger with a YouTube channel.

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