CVE-2012-6637
N/A
Published: March 3, 2014 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsCordovaPhonegap
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 9%
Description
Apache Cordova 3.3.0 and earlier and Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 and earlier do not anchor the end of domain-name regular expressions, which allows remote attackers to bypass a whitelist protection mechanism via a domain name that contains an acceptable name as an initial substring.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (6)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124954/apachecordovaphonegap-bypass.txtMailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96x_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdfQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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