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CVE-2012-6636

Date: March 2, 2014

The Android API before 17 does not properly restrict the WebView.addJavascriptInterface method, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary methods of Java objects by using the Java Reflection API within crafted JavaScript code that is loaded into the WebView component in an application targeted to API level 16 or earlier, a related issue to CVE-2013-4710.

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.lang.String%29
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN62161191/index.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6636
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-6636

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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