The Indian government has issued a high-risk warning to Apple iPhone and iPad customers owing to vulnerabilities in its iOS and iPadOS software. These vulnerabilities may result in malicious apps that render devices unusable or inoperative until they are restored.
Users of iPhones and iPads might be seriously impacted by high-risk flaws in Apple’s iOS and iPadOS that have been discovered by the government research team, Computer Emergency Response organisation (Cert-In). A security alert dated March 12, 2025, states that these vulnerabilities might enable malicious software to render devices inoperable or unresponsive until they are fixed.
As a “high risk” event, it might cause the gadgets to malfunction.
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Darwin notifications are a low-level messaging system in the CoreOS layer that enables apps to send and receive alerts about system-wide events, according to Cert-In.
iOS applications may send critical Darwin alerts without requiring specific permissions, allowing malicious programs to render devices unresponsive or inoperable until they are restored. Cert-In encourages users to install the required updates outlined in the Apple Security Advisory.
The Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) in its advisory said, “A vulnerability in Apple’s iOS and iPad OS may allow certain malicious applications to cause affected devices to become unresponsive or non-functional until restored.”
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Software Affected
- iOS versions prior to 18.3 (for iPhone XS and later)
- iPadOS versions prior to 17.7.3 (for iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, and iPad 6th generation)
- iPadOS versions prior to 18.3 (for iPad Pro 13-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 7th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later)
