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Cordova In App BrowserApplication · Apache

CVE-2014-0073

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.0 Published 2017-10-30
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to after 2.9.0 or later.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
The CDVInAppBrowser class in the Apache Cordova In-App-Browser standalone plugin (org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser) before 0.3.2 for iOS and the In-App-Browser plugin for iOS from Cordova 2.6.0 through 2.9.0 does not properly validate callback identifiers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the host page and consequently gain privileges via a crafted gap-iab: URI.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-264

A legacy NVD category covering weaknesses where permissions or privileges are assigned, checked, or dropped incorrectly, so an action ends up running with more access than it should. It is an umbrella label from older records, not a single flaw. The remedy depends on the specific case, but the throughline is least privilege with explicit, checked transitions wherever privilege changes.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Cordova In App BrowserApplication
Affected:<= 0.3.1
CordovaApplication
Affected:>= 2.6.0, <= 2.9.0

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to a release after 2.9.0
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Recommended fix High confidence

cordova-plugin-inappbrowser version 0.3.2+ or Cordova 3.0+

  1. Identify the current version of cordova-plugin-inappbrowser in your project by examining your config.xml or package.json
  2. For projects using the standalone In-App-Browser plugin (org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser): Upgrade to version 0.3.2 or later by running: cordova plugin rm org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser && cordova plugin add [email protected]
  3. For projects using Cordova framework (2.6.0-2.9.0): Upgrade the entire Cordova installation to version 3.0 or later, as the vulnerability was fixed in later Cordova releases
  4. After upgrading, verify the fix by confirming the callback identifier validation is present in the CDVInAppBrowser class source code
  5. Test the In-App-Browser functionality to ensure the upgrade did not break existing functionality
Caveat Upgrading Cordova from 2.x to 3.x+ may require migration steps as Cordova 3.0 introduced significant architectural changes including moving APIs to plugins; some JavaScript APIs may have different behavior

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