The Cocoapods bugswere discoveredby researchers with E.V.A.
Information Security, a cybersecurity and pentesting firm.
Downstream dependencies could mean that thousands of applications and millions of devices were exposed over the last few years.
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Researchers say they havent seen any evidence yet that suggests apps were actually compromised.
However, if some were, it could obviously spell major trouble for users.
Thesecurity deficiencies that can arise in open source softwareare well-known.
The end-results are, predictably, not good.
Gizmodo reached out to Apple for comment and will update this story if it responds.
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