Vulnerability CVE-2012-6637
Published: 2014-03-02   Modified: 2014-03-03

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Apache -> Cordova 
Adobe -> Phonegap 

 References:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96
http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf
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/
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