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Authorization Bypass Affecting cordova-ios package, versions >=3.5.0 <4.0.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:cordova-ios:20141029
  • published 21 Jun 2017
  • disclosed 28 Oct 2014
  • credit agrieve
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Introduced: 28 Oct 2014

CVE-2015-5207 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade cordova-ios to version 4.0.0 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Authorization bypass. Apache Cordova iOS contains 2 methods to bypass the URL access restrictions provided by the whitelist. An attacker can use any of the 2 methods to load malicious resources in an app that uses a whitelist to only load trusted resources.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
4.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None