CVE-2012-6637

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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 products

Adobe Phonegap: through 2.9.0; 2.0.0, 2.0.0-rc1, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.2.0-rc1, 2.2.0-rc2 (+14)
Apache Software Foundation Apache Cordova Android: through 3.3.0; 3.0.0, 3.0.0-rc1, 3.1.0, 3.1.0-rc1, 3.2.0, 3.2.0-rc1 (+1)

References

http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2012/04/30/building-android-javajavascript-bridges/
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124954/apachecordovaphonegap-bypass.txt
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf
http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2012/04/30/building-android-javajavascript-bridges/
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124954/apachecordovaphonegap-bypass.txt
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf
http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3

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