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CVE-2015-5256
Apache Cordova-Android before 4.1.0, when an application relies on a remote server, improperly implements a JavaScript whitelist…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Apache Cordova-Android before 4.1.0, when an application relies on a remote server, improperly implements a JavaScript whitelist protection mechanism, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted URI.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 8.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 20151120 Fwd: CVE-2015-5256: Apache Cordova vulnerable to improper application of whitelist restrictions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134497/Apache-Cordova-3.7.2-Whitelist-Failure.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- JVNDB-2015-000187 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDBx_transferred
- 77677 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2015/11/20/security.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- JVN#18889193 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-5244 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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