CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6636
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-03-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• google android api (<= 16.0)
• google android api 1.0
• google android api 2.0
• google android api 3.0
• google android api 4.0
• google android api 5.0
• google android api 6.0
• google android api 7.0
• google android api 8.0
• google android api 9.0
• google android api 10.0
• google android api 11.0
• google android api 12.0
• google android api 13.0
• google android api 14.0
• google android api 15.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314 50.56.33.56
- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1 developer.android.com
- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.lang.String%29 developer.android.com
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN62161191/index.html jvn.jp
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9 openwall.com
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf Exploit
- http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3 www.internetsociety.org
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421 support.lenovo.com
- http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314 50.56.33.56
- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1 developer.android.com
- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.lang.String%29 developer.android.com
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN62161191/index.html jvn.jp
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9 openwall.com
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf Exploit
- http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3 www.internetsociety.org
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421 support.lenovo.com