cve-2012-6636
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-03-03 02:00
Modified
2024-08-06 21:36
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314
cve@mitre.orghttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1
cve@mitre.orghttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.lang.String%29
cve@mitre.orghttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN62161191/index.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdfExploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.lang.String%29
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN62161191/index.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdfExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421
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