01 Record
CVE-2012-6637
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 8.94% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-03-03 02:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 21:36Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-02-07
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e496827e86218eb698f18b3bfccdf9ccd0353b8eae6e27363137bdf67745288a
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.cs.utexas.eduhttp://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf
- www.internetsociety.orghttp://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
- seclists.org20140124 Security Vulnerabilities in Apache Cordova / PhoneGaphttp://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96
- labs.mwrinfosecurity.comhttp://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/2012/04/30/building-android-javajavascript-bridges/
- openwall.com[oss-security] 20140207 Re: CVE request: multiple issues in Apache Cordova/PhoneGaphttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124954/apachecordovaphonegap-bypass.txt