Toolkit Apache Cordova suffers cross-application scripting bug, IBM discovers
By John Leyden, 6 Aug 2014
Hackers can swipe login credentials and other sensitive data from one in 10 Android banking apps, and about six per cent of all Android apps, IBM researchers warn.
Users should avoid using the vulnerable apps, which were built using Apache Cordova up to version 3.5.0, until they have been updated to squash the bug.
Big Blue's Security X-Force Research team has uncovered what it described as a "serious vulnerability" in Cordova, a toolkit for crafting mobile software using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The utility kit was previously known as PhoneGap.
A cross-application scripting (CAS) hole allows miscreants to remotely run malicious JavaScript code in the context of a vulnerable Cordova-built app, IBM staffers say. It's possible to exploit other bugs within Cordova to then siphon off sensitive information, such as login cookies.
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