Vulnerability record · CVE-2012-6636 · published 3 March 2014

CVE-2012-6636: Google android api permissions and access controls vulnerability

Google · Android Api

The Android API before 17 does not properly restrict the WebView.addJavascriptInterface method, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary methods of Java objects by using the Java Reflection API within crafted JavaScript code that is loaded into the WebView component in an application targeted to API level 16 or earlier, a related issue to CVE-2013-4710.

6.8 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 38% · top 1.5% CWE-264 · Permissions and access controls

6.8CVSS 2.0 base score

38%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

16References, 2 tagged exploit

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Android Api Google

References

Link	Tags
http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.l
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN62161191/index.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf	Exploit
http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421
http://50.56.33.56/blog/?p=314
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERSION_CODES.html#JELLY_BEAN_MR1
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#addJavascriptInterface%28java.lang.Object%2C%20java.l
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN62161191/index.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/07/9
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf	Exploit
http://www.internetsociety.org/ndss2014/programme#session3
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len_6421

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2012-6636), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.