CVE-2012-6637: Adobe Phonegap

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 8.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Cordova 3.3.0 and earlier and Adobe PhoneGap 2.9.0 and earlier do not anchor the end of domain-name regular expressions, which allows remote attackers to bypass a whitelist protection mechanism via a domain name that contains an acceptable name as an initial substring.

Affected products

• Adobe Phonegap: up to and including 2.9.0; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.2.0 only; version 2.3.0 only; version 2.4.0 only; …
• Apache Cordova: up to and including 3.3.0; version 3.0.0 only; version 3.1.0 only; version 3.2.0 only; version 3.3.0 only

Published 2014-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.