CVE-2012-6637

high

Published 2014-03-03 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
apache	cordova	`{"endIncluding":"3.3.0"}`
apache	cordova	`3.0.0`
apache	cordova	`3.1.0`
apache	cordova	`3.2.0`
apache	cordova	`3.3.0`
adobe	phonegap	`{"endIncluding":"2.9.0"}`
adobe	phonegap	`2.0.0`
adobe	phonegap	`2.1.0`
adobe	phonegap	`2.2.0`
adobe	phonegap	`2.3.0`
adobe	phonegap	`2.4.0`
adobe	phonegap	`2.5.0`
adobe	phonegap	`2.6.0`
adobe	phonegap	`2.7.0`
adobe	phonegap	`2.8.0`
adobe	phonegap	`2.8.1`
adobe	phonegap	`2.9.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.