A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Google Android Browser (Smartphone Operating System) (affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component IFRAME Rendering. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication spoofing vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-290. This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks. Impacted is integrity.

The bug was discovered 12/10/2011. The weakness was disclosed 12/21/2011. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. The attack may be launched remotely. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $25k-$100k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/27/2018). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 11 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Google

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• Android Browser

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• free

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