CAPEC-503

WebView Exposure
Draft
2014-06-23 00:00 +00:00
2020-07-30 00:00 +00:00

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Description

An adversary, through a malicious web page, accesses application specific functionality by leveraging interfaces registered through WebView's addJavascriptInterface API. Once an interface is registered to WebView through addJavascriptInterface, it becomes global and all pages loaded in the WebView can call this interface.

Informations

Prerequisites

This type of an attack requires the adversary to convince the user to load the malicious web page inside the target application. Once loaded, the malicious web page will have the same permissions as the target application and will have access to all registered interfaces. Both the permission and the interface must be in place for the functionality to be exposed.

Mitigations

To mitigate this type of an attack, an application should limit permissions to only those required and should verify the origin of all web content it loads.

Related Weaknesses

CWE-ID Weakness Name
CWE-284 Improper Access Control
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

References

REF-430

Attacks on WebView in the Android System
Tongbo Luo, Hao Hao, Wenliang Du, Yifei Wang, Heng Yin.
http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/Research/paper/webview_acsac2011.pdf

Submission

Name Organization Date Date Release
CAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation 2014-06-23 +00:00

Modifications

Name Organization Date Comment
CAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation 2019-04-04 +00:00 Updated Related_Weaknesses
CAPEC Content Team The MITRE Corporation 2020-07-30 +00:00 Updated Related_Attack_Patterns
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