CVE-2018-16202 — Directory traversal vulnerability in cordova-plugin-ionic-webview versions prior

Directory traversal vulnerability in cordova-plugin-ionic-webview versions prior to 2.2.0 (not including 2.0.0-beta.0, 2.0.0-beta.1, 2.0.0-beta.2, and 2.1.0-0) allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

01What is this vulnerability?

Directory traversal vulnerability in cordova-plugin-ionic-webview versions prior to 2.2.0 (not including 2.0.0-beta.0, 2.0.0-beta.1, 2.0.0-beta.2, and 2.1.0-0) allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
npm, Inc.	cordova	plugin-ionic-webview — versions prior to 2.2.0 (not including 2.0.0-beta.0, 2.0.0-beta.1, 2.0.0-beta.2, and 2.1.0-0)

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-01-09T22:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:17:38.252Z

09References

• jvn.jp — https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN69812763/index.html
• github.com — https://github.com/ionic-team/cordova-plugin-ionic-webview
• www.npmjs.com — https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/746
• jvn.jp — http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN60497148/index.html