When a string with '%' signs exists in WiFi hotspot names, iOS may be mistakenly interpreting the letters following '%' as string-format specifiers when they are not. Other security researchers who saw Schou's tweet and analyzed the crash report believe that an input parsing issue likely causes this bug. MobCat JLikely a string formatting vulnerability

Old ass android had no issue connecting to and saving it both open and with wpa2. So I haven't done any homework on this bug / wouldn't even really know where to look but i'm guessing this is just an ios bug? The only way to fix our iPhone's broken Wi-Fi feature was to reset the device's iPhone network settings, which we describe how to do at the end of the article.Ī bug like this is serious, considering malicious actors could plant rogue WiFi hotspots (needing no password) in popular areas to bork iPhone devices that connect to them.Īccording to users, the issue is unique to iPhones and does not appear to be reproducible on Android devices: WiFi setting is broken after connecting to SSID

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