The Apple guidelines say:
Apps that read or write data outside its designated container area will be rejected
What is their designed container area?
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Basically, it means that you should not write or read data to/from any other directory other than your own applcations directory.
e.g. you can update the sqlite DB of your another app from your own app unless there is a public API that allows that