CVE-2016-6799
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Information Exposure in cordova-android
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | cordova-android | <6.0.0 | 6.0.0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | cordova | {"endIncluding":"5.2.2"} | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98365
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1f3e7b0319d64b455f73616f572acee36fbca31f87f5b2e509c45b69%40%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6799
- https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/commit/4a0a7bc424fae14c9689f4a8a2dc250ae3a47f82
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6799
- https://github.com/apache/cordova-android
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1f3e7b0319d64b455f73616f572acee36fbca31f87f5b2e509c45b69@%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CORDOVAANDROID-174935
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/964
CWEs
CWE-532
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.