Earlier today I brought you a story about Apple releasing a Rapid Security Response update that fixed an in the wild vulnerability. But at the same time broke access to a number of websites. Which forced Apple to pull the Rapid Security Response. Now a support document says that a new version of this Rapid Security Response is inbound to fix the stuff that Apple broke.
Apple is aware of an issue where recent Rapid Security Responses might prevent some websites from displaying properly.
- Rapid Security Response iOS 16.5.1 (a) and iPadOS 16.5.1 (a)
- Rapid Security Response macOS 13.4.1 (a)
Rapid Security Responses iOS 16.5.1 (b), iPadOS 16.5.1 (b), and macOS 13.4.1 (b) will be available soon to address this issue.
The question is, what does soon mean? Again, the whole idea of a Rapid Security Response is that this is a means for Apple to quickly fix a vulnerability that is in the wild and is being actively exploited. That means that Apple logically needs to fix this quickly as they’ve now tipped their hand as to what the fix is. Potentially giving threat actors the chance to alter how they exploit the vulnerability. In short, Apple is in a race against time here. And Apple needs to win this race or potentially users of Apple products could lose.