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author:
name: Joe Bowser
url: https://twitter.com/infil00p
title: "CVE annoucements for Cordova-Android"
title: "CVE announcements for Cordova-Android"
categories: announcements
tags: news releases security
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Apache Cordova has re-visited CVE-2015-5256 "Apache Cordova vulnerable to improper application of whitelist restrictions on Android”. Upon further investigation we found that the vulnerability is more limited than was previously understood.
We are lowering the severity to Low, and updating the description, affected versions, and upgrade path.

CVE-2015-5257 continues to be a valid vulnerability present in Cordova 3.6.4 and this is fixed in later versions of Cordova, and we want to encourage users
CVE-2015-5257 continues to be a valid vulnerability present in Cordova 3.6.4 and this is fixed in later versions of Cordova, and we want to encourage users
to upgrade to 4.1.1 and for users needing to support Marshmallow (API 23+) we recommend to upgrade to Cordova Android 5.1.x.

When using the Cordova CLI, the command to use 4.1.1 or 5.1.0 of Cordova Android is:
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Upgrade path:

There is no specific software patch for this vulnerability. Developers that are concerned about this should make sure to only whitelist trusted websites, and make sure that whitelisted websites don’t redirect to a malicious website.
There is no specific software patch for this vulnerability. Developers that are concerned about this should make sure to only whitelist trusted websites, and make sure that whitelisted websites don’t redirect to a malicious website.
Developers should also use SSL, as well as Content Security Policy(CSP) to further mitigate this issue. It’s always recommended for developers to upgrade to the latest version of Cordova Android.

Credit: Muneaki Nishimura of Sony Digital Network Applications, Inc
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Description:

Cordova uses a bridge that allows the Native Application to communicate with the HTML and Javascript that control the user interface. To protect this bridge on Android, the
Cordova uses a bridge that allows the Native Application to communicate with the HTML and Javascript that control the user interface. To protect this bridge on Android, the
framework uses a BridgeSecret to protect it from third-party hijacking. However, the BridgeSecret is not sufficiently random and can be determined in certain scenarios.

Upgreade Path:
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