cve/2012/CVE-2012-6637.md

### [CVE-2012-6637](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6637)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124954/apachecordovaphonegap-bypass.txt
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Jan/96
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ndss14nofrak.pdf

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.