CVEs / CVE-2012-6636
CVE-2012-6636: n/a n/a vulnerability
- medium 6.8 CVSS 2.0 (NVD)
- EPSS 44.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- Last changed at its sources
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Description
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.
Affected and fixed versions
| Product | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| n/a n/a | n/a | — |
Exploitation
Not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as of 13 Nov 2026.
Severity
| CVSS 2.0 | 6.8 mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PScored by NVD |
|---|---|
| Weakness | CWE-264 |
References
- CVE-2012-6636 on NVD
- 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
Sources
Exploitation status from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scores from FIRST. Descriptions, severity and references from the National Vulnerability Database. Open-source package versions from OSV (CC-BY 4.0). Text is shown as each source states it; Stackurity does not edit it. Check the vendor's advisory before acting.
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