iOS 11.2 includes a HomeKit security flaw, but it's now fixed

They continue to be bad days for Apple and security. In just a week we have found a serious security flaw in macOS that could allow anyone to take control of your computer, after that another iOS 11.1.2 flaw that left the iPhone and iPad useless on December 2, and now a new security flaw in HomeKit that could allow someone to access your devices from outside.

Considering that HomeKit has electronic concertators and motorized garage door systems, the security breach could give anyone access to our own homes, which is a very serious matter. Apple, aware of the failure for some time, is working on it and what it has done is, for now, takes a partial solution that prevents someone from taking advantage of the failure.

The failure is at the level of Apple's servers, not the accessories themselves, so it will only be necessary for the company to solve it within its plot so that all users can be calm again with HomeKit. The solution will arrive shortly in a software update, probably this coming week, but for now Apple has removed remote access for guest users to HomeKit, It seems that something key for someone to take advantage of this failure.

We do not know more details about it, but we do know that 9to5Mac was already aware of the failure since October, and that Apple was also aware of it. This time it seems that the procedure has been much more appropriate than with the failure of macOS, with which its discoverer wanted to get his minute of fame and revealed it before Apple could do anything to fix it. We already know that the ruling exists but there is no risk after Apple's precautionary measure, pending the final one.