CVE-2012-6636
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 38.7% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-6482)
- Published
- March 3, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-6482 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
- google / android api
References
- http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314
- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1
- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.lang.String%29
- 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(Exploit)
- http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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