Is Your Platform at Risk?

Temporal Security Discontinuities are a newly documented class of vulnerability affecting any system where cached executable content can survive a security policy transition. Find out if your products are exposed.

Start the Assessment Learn About Our Patent

This Vulnerability Class Is Real — and Widespread

Any system with cached executable content and security policy transitions is potentially vulnerable. This is not theoretical.

CVE webkit-294380 — 3 Years Undetected in Apple iOS Lockdown Mode

Our founder discovered that Apple's Lockdown Mode — introduced in 2022 to protect journalists, activists, and government officials from nation-state attacks — could be silently bypassed through WebAssembly and JavaScript that had been cached prior to the mode transition. The vulnerability persisted undetected for three years (2022–2025) and was assigned internal reference LDB-01 and webkit-294380. Apple remediated the issue in iOS 26 / iPadOS 26. Our patent (U.S. App. No. 19/640,793) covers the generalized, platform-independent framework — extending far beyond iOS to every system that caches executable content.

⚠

The Core Mechanism

When a platform transitions to a more restrictive security policy, previously cached executable content — compiled shaders, WebAssembly, ML models, service workers — is not re-evaluated against the new policy. The cache is trusted implicitly.

🔐

Why It Goes Undetected

Traditional security audits focus on content at the moment it executes, not its provenance. Temporal context — when content was cached relative to a policy change — is invisible to conventional security tooling.

📊

Who Should Be Concerned

Platform developers across mobile OS, desktop OS, browsers, enterprise MDM, AI/ML, IoT, and cloud/container orchestration all face exposure if their systems manage cached executable content and support security mode transitions.

Interactive Attack Surface Assessment

Answer the questions below to receive a personalized risk profile for your platform or product. All processing happens in your browser — no data is transmitted.

Platform Risk Questionnaire

7 questions • Takes approximately 2 minutes

1. Does your platform cache executable content? Select all types your platform stores or manages.
2. Does your platform support security policy transitions? Select all modes or transitions that apply.
3. How does your platform handle cached content during security policy transitions? Select the option that best describes current behavior.
4. What cache storage locations does your platform use? Select all that apply.
5. How long does cached executable content persist on your platform? Select the typical maximum duration.
6. Does your platform bind cached content to its security context at the time of caching? E.g., storing policy ID, security level, or timestamps alongside cached executables.
7. Does your platform serve high-risk user populations? Select all that apply. These groups are priority targets for sophisticated adversaries.

Results are generated entirely in your browser. No data is collected or transmitted.

Your Assessment Results

Low Medium High Critical
● Low Risk

Key Findings

    Recommendation

    Schedule a Technical Briefing Learn About Our Licensing

    This assessment provides a directional risk estimate based on platform characteristics. A formal technical engagement is required for definitive vulnerability analysis.

    Attack Surface Landscape

    Temporal Security Discontinuities are not limited to any single platform. Here are the major categories of systems that carry structural exposure.

    📱

    Mobile Operating Systems

    iOS • Android • HarmonyOS

    3 years undetected in iOS Lockdown Mode

    Mobile OS platforms cache WebAssembly, JavaScript, compiled app code, and ML inference models. Lockdown modes, enterprise profiles, and parental controls all represent policy transitions that cached content can survive.

    Learn more →
    💻

    Desktop Operating Systems

    Windows • macOS • Linux

    Security zone transitions, User Account Control escalations, enterprise group policy updates, and system integrity protection modes can all leave cached executables from less restrictive states active and unvalidated.

    Learn more →
    🌐

    Web Browsers

    Chrome • Firefox • Safari • Edge

    Browsers cache WebAssembly binaries, compiled JavaScript, Service Workers, and shared-array-buffer content. Privacy mode transitions and per-site security level changes create discontinuities in the execution security context.

    Learn more →
    🏢

    Enterprise MDM Platforms

    Intune • Jamf • VMware Workspace ONE

    MDM policy pushes can dramatically tighten endpoint security posture within seconds. Cached executables pre-dating the policy change remain on-device and may execute before the new policy can intercept them.

    Learn more →
    🤖

    AI / ML Platforms

    Inference runtimes • Model servers • Edge AI

    AI platforms cache compiled model artifacts, operator kernels, and tokenizers. As model governance policies evolve — restricting certain capabilities or enforcing safety constraints — previously cached model versions may bypass those controls.

    Learn more →
    🔌

    IoT & Embedded Systems

    Firmware • RTOS • Edge devices

    IoT devices that cache firmware update staging data, compiled automation scripts, or edge ML models face exposure during secure boot transitions and firmware update cycles where prior-state cached content may persist in flash storage.

    Learn more →
    ☁

    Cloud & Container Platforms

    Kubernetes • Docker • Serverless runtimes

    Container orchestration platforms cache image layers, compiled workload artifacts, and runtime snapshots. Security policy changes applied at the orchestrator level do not retroactively invalidate already-cached image content running in pods.

    Learn more →

    Comprehensive Patent Coverage Across All Platforms

    Our patent covers the generalized framework for detecting, validating, and mitigating cached executable content that persists across security policy transitions — regardless of platform, cache type, or execution environment.

    U.S. App. No. 19/640,793

    Discuss Licensing View Full Technology Overview