Release appearance

iOS 7.0.6 Public

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Recorded context

About this appearance

iOS 7.0.6 restored missing SSL/TLS authenticity checks in Secure Transport, closing a documented network interception and modification risk.

Date
Feb 21, 2014
Availability
available
Revision
No

Release notes

What changed

Original editorial synthesis. Linked references appear with the claims they support and in the source ledger.

This release had one documented purpose: repair SSL connection verification. Apple’s security bulletin identifies missing authenticity-validation steps in Secure Transport rather than a collection of unrelated feature or maintenance changes.[1][2]

The affected condition required an attacker with a privileged network position and could expose protected sessions to captured or modified data. Restoring the omitted validation steps addressed that path.[1]

Source ledger

References

Sources are linked to the claims they support. Publication and access dates are shown when available.

  1. About the security content of iOS 7.0.6

    Apple Support · 2026-07-30 · Data Security — CVE-2014-1266

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  2. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.0.6

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  3. Apple security updates (2014)

    Apple Support · Apple · 2023-08-10T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.0.6 — 21 Feb 2014

  4. About the security content of iOS 7.0.6

    Apple Support · 2026-07-30 · iOS 7.0.6 security content

Release changes

Changed in this release

Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.

security · fixed

Secure Transport certificate validation

documentedconfirmed

The repair prevented the documented privileged-network attack path from capturing or changing data by reinstating validation steps that had not been performed.

  1. [1] About the security content of iOS 7.0.6 · Data Security — CVE-2014-1266
  2. [2] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.0.6