CVE-2012-6637
Apache Cordova 3.3.0 and earlier and Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 and earlier do not anchor the end of domain-name regular expressions, which allows remote attackers to bypass a whitelist protection mechanism via a domain name that contains an acceptable name as an initial substring.
- EPSS
- 8.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- adobe:phonegap
- apache:cordova
References
- http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2012/04/30/building-android-javajavascript-bridges/
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124954/apachecordovaphonegap-bypass.txt
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf