Going against the grain here but I think this is decent security engineering from Apple. They patched the highest exploitable things immediately (Safari, Mail, etc). The residual risk is using these command line tools while someone is actively MITMing your connection.
How often are people “git clone”ing a repo without browsing to the GitHub site first? Safari would throw up certificate errors. And also, TLS on Git doesn’t even authenticate the code you’re downloading is legitimate at all. It could be modified by the Git host or a supply chain attack, etc.
Yea, it’s not great. Ideally the risk is reduced to zero from patching. But a lot of the times we accept some level of cybersecurity risk out of practicality. This is why we have responsible disclosure windows lasting months. It takes a while to do proper release engineering and testing for something like a whole OS update.
How often are people “git clone”ing a repo without browsing to the GitHub site first? Safari would throw up certificate errors. And also, TLS on Git doesn’t even authenticate the code you’re downloading is legitimate at all. It could be modified by the Git host or a supply chain attack, etc.
Yea, it’s not great. Ideally the risk is reduced to zero from patching. But a lot of the times we accept some level of cybersecurity risk out of practicality. This is why we have responsible disclosure windows lasting months. It takes a while to do proper release engineering and testing for something like a whole OS update.