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by gorena 3900 days ago
Scary how many of these are obsolete or outdated.

"Bolts-iOS" is a dependency of "facebook-ios-sdk", which means that 19 of the top apps are using an outdated version of the Facebook SDK that predates Bolts, and might be vulnerable.

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Yep, there are tons of SDKs being used that aren't actively maintained like ASIHTTPRequest on iOS, for example. There are two reasons we've found:

1. App was written a while ago and is only in maintenance mode

2. Developer got started early on and hasn't kept track of the industry

The latter often happens with internal dev kits, where someone drops a static library in (say, to add a wrapper) and then never updates the dependency. New apps inherit it when they use the internal dev kit.