This issue is addressed with improved app validation. A malicious app may be able to bypass enterprise provisioning profiles. This issue is fixed with improved profile management. A malicious app may be able to bypass certificate parsing. This issue is fixed with improved certificate validation. An issue existed where ARP spoofing could occur on an affected network. This issue is fixed with improved network stack hardening. A malicious app may be able to bypass enterprise app validation. This issue is fixed with improved app validation. An issue existed where certain certificates could not be validated with Xcode. This issue is fixed with improved certificate validation. An issue existed that prevented enterprise provisioning profiles from being deleted. This issue is fixed with improved profile deletion. An issue existed with the installation of enterprise profiles on an iOS device. This issue is fixed with improved profile installation. An issue existed where signing of enterprise apps using Xcode was failing. This issue is fixed with improved Enterprise app signing. An issue existed where certain enterprise provisioning profiles were not being installed. This issue is fixed with improved profile installation. An issue existed where certain certificate validation was not being performed. This issue is fixed with improved certificate validation. An issue existed where certain signing activity was not being validated. This issue is fixed with improved signing validation

What is the Xcode Development Environment?

The Xcode Development Environment is a development tool for the iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS operating systems. It is used by developers to create apps for these platforms using the programming languages Objective-C and Swift. With Xcode, developers can perform tasks such as compiling, building, running and debugging apps.

Security Improvements By Instance

The App Store Team has added an improved validation for enterprise provisioning profiles.
This issue is fixed with improved profile validation. The certificate parsing feature of iOS has been updated to prevent malicious apps from being able to bypass certificate parsing.
This issue is fixed with improved certificate validation. The ARP spoofing protection on the network stack has been updated to prevent malicious apps from being able to spoof ARP on an affected network.
This issue is fixed with improved network stack hardening. The Enterprise team has added improved app validation. This issue is fixed with improved app validation. The Enterprise team has updated Xcode to prevent certain certificates that were not being validated by the mobile platform from causing issues in software development when used with the Xcode tool chain.
This issue is fixed with improved certificate validation. The Enterprise team has updated the installation of enterprise profiles on iOS devices by patching a few crashes and making some other minor improvements related to profile installation.
This issue is fixed with improved profile installation.

Networking Notes

This update includes improvements to Certificates, Certificate Validation, Enterprise App Signing and Enterprise Profile Installation.
The following are notes on some of the more noteworthy changes in this update:

Timeline

Published on: 05/26/2022 20:15:00 UTC
Last modified on: 06/08/2022 12:42:00 UTC

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