CVE-2015-5207 - Bypass of Access Restrictions in Apache Cordova iOS

[Tony Homer <ajh158 () gmail com>]

CVE-2015-5207 - Bypass of Access Restrictions in Apache Cordova iOS
Severity: High
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:cordova-ios 3.9.1 and below
Description:Apache Cordova iOS contains 2 methods to bypass the URL access
restrictions provided by the whitelist. An attacker can use any of the 2
methods to load malicious resources in an app that uses a whitelist to only
load trusted resources.
Upgrade path:Developers who are concerned about this issue should install
version 4.0.0 or higher of the cordova-ios platform.
Credit:This issue was discovered by Muneaki Nishimura (nishimunea) of
Recruit Technologies Co.,Ltd.