CVE-2012-6637
highpriority · track · 33EPSS 0.089 · 95 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.4–7.5
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affected products (18)
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also known as (3)
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references (19)
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- http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2012/04/30/building-android-javajavascript-bridges/cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9cnnvd
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124954/apachecordovaphonegap-bypass.txtcnnvd
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96cnnvd
- http://www.apache.org/Patchcnnvd
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdfcnnvd
- http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3cnnvd
- http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2012/04/30/building-android-javajavascript-bridges/enisa_euvd
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