CWE-939 18 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-939: Improper Authorization in Handler for Custom URL Scheme

Overview

CWE-939 (Improper Authorization in Handler for Custom URL Scheme) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product uses a handler for a custom URL scheme, but it does not properly restrict which actors can invoke the handler using the scheme.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
technology Mobile Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-3471 2026-05-18 Mattermost Desktop App versions <=6.1 6.0.1 5.4.13.0 fail to prevent an invalid URL from loading in a pop-up window in the Mattermost Desktop App which allows a malicious server owner to repeated cras…
CVE-2026-35394 2026-04-06 Mobile Next is an MCP server for mobile development and automation. Prior to 0.0.50, the mobile_open_url tool in mobile-mcp passes user-supplied URLs directly to Android's intent system without any sc…
CVE-2026-33335 2026-03-24 Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Starting in version 0.21.0 and prior to version 2.2.0, the Vikunja Desktop Electron wrapper passes URLs from `window.open()` calls direc…
CVE-2026-26123 2026-03-10 Cwe is not in rca categories in Microsoft Authenticator allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.
CVE-2026-1046 2026-02-16 Mattermost Desktop App versions <=6.0 6.2.0 5.2.13.0 fail to validate help links which allows a malicious Mattermost server to execute arbitrary executables on a user’s system via the user clicking on…
CVE-2025-67739 2025-12-11 In JetBrains TeamCity before 2025.11.2 improper repository URL validation could lead to local paths disclosure
CVE-2025-41408 2025-09-05 Improper authorization in handler for custom URL scheme issue in "Yahoo! Shopping" App for Android versions prior to 14.15.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker may lead a user to access an arbit…
CVE-2025-5020 2025-05-21 Opening maliciously-crafted URLs in Firefox from other apps such as Safari could have allowed attackers to spoof website addresses if the URLs utilized non-HTTP schemes used internally by the Firefox …
CVE-2024-54125 2024-12-17 Improper authorization in handler for custom URL scheme issue in "Shonen Jump+" App for Android versions prior to 4.0.0 allows an attacker to lead a user to access an arbitrary website via the vulnera…
CVE-2024-54014 2024-12-05 Improper authorization in handler for custom URL scheme issue in 'Skylark' App for Android 6.2.13 and earlier and 'Skylark' App for iOS 6.2.13 and earlier allows an attacker to lead the application to…
CVE-2024-45203 2024-09-09 Improper authorization in handler for custom URL scheme issue in "@cosme" App for Android versions prior 5.69.0 and "@cosme" App for iOS versions prior to 6.74.0 allows an attacker to lead a user to a…
CVE-2024-41918 2024-08-29 'Rakuten Ichiba App' for Android 12.4.0 and earlier and 'Rakuten Ichiba App' for iOS 11.7.0 and earlier are vulnerable to improper authorization in handler for custom URL scheme. An arbitrary site may…
CVE-2024-35298 2024-06-19 Improper authorization in handler for custom URL scheme issue in 'ZOZOTOWN' App for Android versions prior to 7.39.6 allows an attacker to lead a user to access an arbitrary website via another applic…
CVE-2024-33606 2024-06-11 An attacker could retrieve sensitive files (medical images) as well as plant new medical images or overwrite existing medical images on a MicroDicom DICOM Viewer system. User interaction is required t…
CVE-2023-43582 2023-11-15 Improper authorization in some Zoom clients may allow an authorized user to conduct an escalation of privilege via network access.
CVE-2022-20736 2022-06-15 A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AppDynamics Controller Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access a configuration file and the login page for an …
CVE-2021-31384 2021-10-19 Due to a Missing Authorization weakness and Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in a specific device configuration, a vulnerability exists in Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series whereby an …
CVE-2020-11000 2020-04-08 GreenBrowser before version 1.2 has a vulnerability where apps that rely on URL Parsing to verify that a given URL is pointing to a trust server may be susceptible to many different ways to get URL pa…

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2014-01-14
Version
2.6

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Modes_of_Introduction, References, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Relationships
2020-06-25 CWE Content Team 4.1 updated Potential_Mitigations
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated References, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-04-03 CWE Content Team 4.17 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Common_Consequences, Detection_Factors, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
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