Successful untethered jailbreak for iOS 11.2 and iOS 11.2.1, even on iPhone X

Pandora Labs announces it has managed to jailbreak iOS 11.2 and iOS 11.2.1, the last two iOS updates to date. We already knew that vulnerabilities existed on iOS 11.1.2, so much so that a Google security researcher has unveiled them publicly. But he noted that iOS 11.2 plugs its loopholes.

 

Pandora Labs seems to have found new ones and unveils an iPhone X with the Cydia icon and an application named Pandora that was certainly used for the jailbreak. This jailbreak precisely is presented as untethered, that is to say that the user keeps the jailbreak if he restarts his iPhone. This is the opposite of a tethered type jailbreak that requires a computer to restart it if the device has been rebooted.

Will this jailbreak be offered for all users? The answer is no. Pandora Labs says it is "limited for security research purposes," hence the reason for only demonstrating and not releasing a tool.

Today, the only potential jailbreak for the public will concern iOS 11.1.2 as security vulnerabilities are public. It only remains to wait for a hacker exploits them, refines the code and takes out his tool.