ubuntu · CVE-2012-6636

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Priority: medium Published: 2014-03-03 04:50:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2012-6636 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (cordova-ubuntu, cordova-ubuntu-3.4), 54 status rows across 27 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, lucid, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, quantal, questing, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 41, ignored 10, needs-triage 2, needed 1.

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.

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