Apache Cordova Android before 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to open and send data to arbitrary applications via a URL with a crafted URI sch

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• apache cordova3.5.0

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2014-1881Apache Cordova 3.3.0 and earlier and Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to bypass intended device-resource restrictions
  33Monitor
• CVE-2012-6637Apache 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
  33Monitor
• CVE-2014-1884Apache Cordova 3.3.0 and earlier and Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 and earlier on Windows Phone 7 and 8 do not properly restrict navigation events, w
  32Monitor
• CVE-2016-6799Product: Apache Cordova Android 5.2.2 and earlier.
  31Monitor
• CVE-2017-3160After the Android platform is added to Cordova the first time, or after a project is created using the build scripts, the scripts will fetch
  30Monitor
• CVE-2014-3500Apache Cordova Android before 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to change the start page via a crafted intent URL.
  26Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.