CVE-2012-6636 Information

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.

Reference

http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314 http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.htmlJELLY_BEAN_MR1 http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.htmladdJavascriptInterface28java.lang.Object20java.lang.String29 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/programmesession3 https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421