Information Exposure Affecting cordova-android package, versions <6.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-CORDOVAANDROID-174935
  • published10 Jun 2019
  • disclosed9 May 2017
  • creditMark Ward

Introduced: 9 May 2017

CVE-2016-6799  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-532  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade cordova-android to version 6.0.0 or higher.

Overview

cordova-android is an Android application library that allows for Cordova-based projects to be built for the Android Platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. It called methods of the Log class. Messages passed to its methods were stored in a series of circular buffers on the device. By default, a maximum of four 16 KB rotated logs were kept in addition to the current log. The logged data could be read using Logcat on the device. When using platforms prior to Android 4.1, the log data is not sandboxed per application, any application installed on the device has the capability to read data logged by other applications.

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