UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6636

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Source

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6636

Import Source

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2012/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6636.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6636

Upstream

CVE-2012-6636

Published

2014-03-03T04:50:00Z

Modified

2025-10-24T04:44:58Z

Severity

Ubuntu - medium

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / cordova-ubuntu-3.4

Package

Name: cordova-ubuntu-3.4
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/cordova-ubuntu-3.4@3.4~pre3.r19ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.4~pre3.r19ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "ubuntu-html5-platform-3.4-dev",
            "binary_version": "3.4~pre3.r19ubuntu1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2012/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6636.json"