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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.88% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:cordova-ios:20141029
  • published21 Jun 2017
  • disclosed28 Oct 2014
  • creditagrieve

Introduced: 28 Oct 2014

CVE-2015-5207  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens 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 Base Scores

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