A View to a Kill: WebView Exploitation

Authors: 

Matthias Neugschwandtner, Martina Lindorfer, and Christian Platzer, Vienna University of Technology

Abstract: 

WebView is a technique to mingle web and native applications for mobile devices. The fact that its main incentive requires making data stored on, as well as the functionality of mobile devices, directly accessible to active web content, is not without consequences to security.

In this paper, we present a threat scenario that targets WebView apps and show its practical applicability in a case study of selected apps. We further show results of our examination of over 287,000 apps in regard to WebView-related vulnerabilities.

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@inproceedings {179239,
author = {Matthias Neugschwandtner and Martina Lindorfer and Christian Platzer},
title = {A View to a Kill: WebView Exploitation},
booktitle = {Presented as part of the 6th {USENIX} Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats},
year = {2013},
address = {Washington, D.C.},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/leet13/workshop-program/presentation/Neugschwandtner},
publisher = {{USENIX}},
}
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