#MAC KEYCHAIN ACCESS POPUP UPDATE#

Neither can I find any Apple Knowledgebase article explaining this, nor (unsurprisingly) any release notes. The peculiar absence of the words вЂњKeychain First AidвЂќ may of course have been a clerical oversight. This issue was resolved by removing legacy functionality. Impact: A malicious application may be able to masquerade as the Keychain Server.Дescription: An issue existed in how Keychain Access interacted with Keychain Agent. As I keep records, I can quote the exact words:ДЄvailable for: OS X El Capitan v10.11 and v10.11.1 Not that it ever seems to have been exploited, though.ДЄpple did sort of tell us, in the security information which accompanied the 10.11.2 update. This was apparently because of a security vulnerability, in which malicious software could pose as a keychain component, and create havoc.

Keychain First Aid quietly disappeared at the end of last year, with the 10.11.2 update. Then Apple decided to integrate that into Keychain Access: to check and repair a keychain, you then had to open Keychain Access, and run First Aid from its app menu. Some time ago, there was a separate tool called Keychain First Aid, which we could run to check and repair wobbly keychains. Inspect and check security certificates using Keychain Access, available in /Applications/Utilities.ДЇor a long time now, Apple has provided a bundled utility, Keychain Access, which lets us view and alter our keychains.

I also remember one particular update to macOS which seemed to cause widespread keychain problems. Most common is having to keep entering your keychain password, because that keychain seems to lock itself when youвЂ™re not looking.

But every once in a while, a Mac seems to run into problems with them.

Keychains вЂ“ which contain passwords, security certificates, encryption keys, and even secure notes if you wish вЂ“ are normally fairly stable and robust.

#MAC KEYCHAIN ACCESS POPUP UPDATE#

Mac keychain access popup