Detections
Analytics
CVE-2012-6637
high
Description
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.
References
http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124954/apachecordovaphonegap-bypass.txt
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2012/04/30/building-android-javajavascript-bridges/