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fix(security): stop reporting every Mac as jailbroken, drop wipe from the alert - #1059

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Problem

UIApplication.isJailbroken infers "this app is not sandboxed" from stat("/bin/sh") == 0:

let jailbroken = stat("/bin/sh", &s) == 0 // if we can see /bin/sh, the app isn't sandboxed

The macOS runtimes let a sandboxed app stat the host's system paths, so that probe is true on every Mac. The only guard was #if targetEnvironment(simulator), which does not cover it: the app builds TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY = "1,2" with no Catalyst opt-out, so it is installable on Apple Silicon Macs as "Designed for iPad" — where targetEnvironment reports neither simulator nor macCatalyst, and only ProcessInfo.processInfo.isiOSAppOnMac distinguishes the case.

The false positive was not cosmetic. On such a Mac, a user with a non-empty wallet was shown "DEVICE SECURITY COMPROMISED" with a .destructive Wipe action as the first button, which pushed DWRecoverViewController in .wipe mode. Wrong signal paired with the most irreversible remedy in the app.

Changes

1. Guard the Mac runtimes (UIApplication+DashWallet.swift)

macCatalyst at compile time, isiOSAppOnMac at runtime. The whole probe now sits in the #else branch, so the device path is byte-for-byte the same logic as before.

This also fixes a latent ordering quirk: previously the MobileSubstrate _dyld loop ran before the simulator early-return, so a simulator build could still return true from the loop. It now returns false immediately.

2. The alert informs, it does not wipe (HomeViewController+JailbreakCheck.swift)

isJailbroken is a heuristic that can be wrong in both directions, so it should not offer an irreversible action. The non-empty-wallet alert is now informational (single OK) and points the user at Security → Reset Wallet, the existing deliberate route — which gates the wipe behind entering the recovery phrase. The empty-wallet "Close App" path is unchanged.

This removes the now-unused wipeWallet(), the DWRecoverViewControllerDelegate conformance, and its delegate methods from the extension. Verified nothing else referenced them; HomeViewController.delegate is typed (HomeViewControllerDelegate & DWWipeDelegate)? independently of the removed conformance.

3. Localization — swapped the now-unreferenced source string for the new one in en.lproj (the Transifex source). Sort order preserved, UTF-8 no BOM, plutil -lint clean.

Not in scope

This does not modernize the detection itself. The MobileSubstrate probe is Cydia Substrate era and no longer matches current tweak loaders (ellekit, libhooker, substitute), and any in-process check is defeatable by the very compromise it looks for. Treat isJailbroken as an advisory nudge, not a security boundary — the added doc comment says so. Deleting the check outright is a reasonable follow-up discussion; this PR only stops it from being actively harmful.

Verification

  • swiftc -typecheck of UIApplication+DashWallet.swift passes for both arm64-apple-ios18.0-simulator and arm64-apple-ios18.0 (device) — i.e. both sides of the new #if.
  • HomeViewController+JailbreakCheck.swift compiles clean in the dashpay scheme build.
  • Traced the alert's advice to a real route: More → MainMenuViewModel "Security" → SecurityMenuViewModel "Reset Wallet" → DWResetWalletInfoViewController → recovery-phrase gate. Distinct from the sibling "Settings" item, so the copy is unambiguous.

Note

The dashpay scheme does not currently build to completion in my environment, for reasons unrelated to this change: 5 errors in EvonodeStatusViewModel.swift referencing SwiftDashSDK symbols (getEvonodeStatus, EvonodeStatus, platformDAPIAddress) absent from the pinned ../platform checkout. I confirmed this is pre-existing by building clean HEAD with my changes removed — byte-identical error set, and neither of my files appears in the failed-command list in either build. Runtime behavior on an actual jailbroken device and on a real Mac install is unverified; the isiOSAppOnMac guard is reasoned from the sandbox profile, not observed.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved device security checks to avoid incorrectly flagging Mac-based runtimes as jailbroken.
    • Updated compromised-device warnings to prevent immediate wallet wiping.
    • Non-empty wallets now direct users to move funds and reset the wallet through Security settings.
    • Empty wallets retain the option to close the app.

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The change excludes macOS-style runtimes from jailbreak probes. Jailbreak warnings no longer trigger immediate wallet wiping. The warning now directs users to move funds to a secure device and reset the wallet through Security.

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Jailbreak detection and recovery warning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Platform-aware jailbreak detection
DashWallet/Sources/Categories/UIApplication+DashWallet.swift
UIApplication.isJailbroken returns false for simulator, macCatalyst, and isiOSAppOnMac targets before running jailbreak probes.
Warning-only recovery flow
DashWallet/Sources/UI/Home/HomeViewController+JailbreakCheck.swift, DashWallet/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
The warning removes wallet wiping and recovery callbacks. Non-empty wallets receive instructions to move funds and use Security → Reset Wallet. Alert actions use Ignore with a primary action, or OK without one. The English warning text matches this flow.

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The change is merge-ready after normal checks and review; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. A minor line-length cleanup may be applied.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant UIApplication.isJailbroken
  participant HomeViewController
  participant UIAlertController
  UIApplication.isJailbroken-->>HomeViewController: jailbreak status
  HomeViewController->>UIAlertController: present security warning
  UIAlertController-->>HomeViewController: Ignore, OK, or primary action
  HomeViewController-->>HomeViewController: direct wallet reset through Security
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… the alert

isJailbroken probes stat("/bin/sh") to infer that the app is unsandboxed. The macOS runtimes let a sandboxed app stat the host's system paths, so that probe is true on every Mac. The existing guard only covered targetEnvironment(simulator), and the app builds for TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY "1,2" with no Catalyst opt-out, so it installs on Apple Silicon Macs as "Designed for iPad" -- where targetEnvironment reports neither simulator nor macCatalyst. Guard macCatalyst at compile time and isiOSAppOnMac at runtime.

The false positive was not cosmetic: with a non-empty wallet the alert led with a destructive "Wipe" action that pushed DWRecoverViewController in .wipe mode. A heuristic that can be wrong in both directions should not offer an irreversible remedy, so the alert is now informational and points at Security > Reset Wallet, which already authorizes the wipe through the recovery phrase. The empty-wallet Close App path is unchanged.

Does not modernize the MobileSubstrate dyld probe, which no longer matches current tweak loaders (ellekit, libhooker, substitute).
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DashWallet/Sources/UI/Home/HomeViewController+JailbreakCheck.swift (1)

36-36: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the new Swift line within the 180-character limit.

Line 36 exceeds 180 characters. Split the lookup key into short string fragments while preserving the exact localization key.

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-            message = NSLocalizedString("DEVICE SECURITY COMPROMISED\nAny 'jailbreak' app can access any other app's keychain data (and steal your Dash). Move your funds to a wallet on a secure device, then reset this wallet using Reset Wallet in the Security menu.", comment: "")
+            let messageKey = "DEVICE SECURITY COMPROMISED\n" +
+                "Any 'jailbreak' app can access any other app's keychain data " +
+                "(and steal your Dash). Move your funds to a wallet on a secure " +
+                "device, then reset this wallet using Reset Wallet in the Security menu."
+            message = NSLocalizedString(messageKey, comment: "")

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In `@DashWallet/Sources/UI/Home/HomeViewController`+JailbreakCheck.swift at line
36, Split the NSLocalizedString lookup key in the jailbreak warning assignment
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Reviewed and built this. The change is correct and I would not block on it — the notes below are one suggestion and three observations.

Build

I got further than your environment did. Repointing the SwiftDashSDK package at a ../platform checkout that carries the masternode API cleared your five EvonodeStatusViewModel.swift errors entirely, and the dashpay build then reduced to a single error:

ShieldedTransferCoordinator.swift:765:39: value of type 'PlatformWalletManager'
  has no member 'shieldedShieldToRecipient'

That is the SDK counterpart of #1057, and no platform checkout I have carries it — so it is pin drift, unrelated to this PR, in a file you do not touch. Both of your files compiled clean in the dashpay target; neither batch containing them is in the failed-command list.

I also reproduced your typecheck on both sides of the new #if: arm64-apple-ios18.0 (device, the #else branch) and arm64-apple-ios18.0-simulator both pass.

One suggestion

The user with funds is now the one left without a protective action. Non-empty wallet gets a single OK; empty wallet still gets Close App + Ignore. So the person with something to lose gets the less actionable alert.

Close App is not destructive, and it is the one genuinely useful thing to offer on a device you believe is compromised. Setting mainAction in both branches also collapses the if let mainAction into an unconditional add.

Observations

Localization churn. .bartycrouch.toml has [update.code] additive = false and [update.normalize] harmonizeWithSource = true, so the next build anyone runs will drop the old key from the other 43 locales and add the new one — a 43-file diff appearing out of nowhere. Worth expecting. Until Transifex round-trips, every non-English user sees the English message.

The alert is presented from viewDidLoad. HomeViewController.swift:91 calls performJailbreakCheck() there, so present runs before the controller is in the window hierarchy. This is pre-existing, but it is worth confirming the alert appears at all given this PR is about what it says — and there is a hint in the fact that no one seems to have reported the Mac false positive: if it reliably showed, every Mac install would have hit it. viewWillAppear/viewDidAppear would be safer.

Wording nit in the description. The old Wipe button was not a one-tap wipe — it pushed DWRecoverViewController in .wipe, which needs either the wallet's recovery phrase or the literal wipe shortcut (DWRecoverContentView.m:263, gated on single-wallet and network checks). Offering a destructive button off a false positive is still wrong, and the shortcut makes it worse than "phrase-gated", but the text reads as though one tap erased the wallet.

Verified

  • isJailbroken has exactly one call site; performJailbreakCheck() exactly one caller.
  • The removed wipeWallet(), recoverCancelButtonAction(_:) and delegate methods have no remaining references. The other DWRecoverViewControllerDelegate conformers (DWLockScreenViewController, DWResetWalletInfoViewController, DWInitialViewController, DWSetupViewController) are untouched.
  • "OK" exists in en.lproj (line 3070); the new key appears exactly once.
  • TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY = "1,2" across 12 configurations, and no SUPPORTS_MACCATALYST / SUPPORTS_MAC_DESIGNED_FOR_IPHONE_IPAD opt-out anywhere in the project — the "Designed for iPad" premise holds.
  • The route in the new copy is real: MainMenuViewModel:128 "Security" → SecurityMenuViewModel:130 "Reset Wallet" → DWResetWalletInfoViewControllerDWRecoverViewController in .wipe.
  • The simulator ordering fix is real: the MobileSubstrate loop previously ran before the early return and could return true on a simulator build.

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LGTM

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