CVE-2012-6636

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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

• http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.lang.String%29
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN62161191/index.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf
• http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
• https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421
• http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.lang.String%29
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN62161191/index.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf
• http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
• https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421

CWEs

CWE-264