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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2017-17226

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

The TripAdvisor app with the versions before TAMobileApp-24.6.4 pre-installed in some Huawei mobile phones have an arbitrary URL loading vulnerability due to insufficient input validation and improper configuration. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to invoke TripAdvisor to load a specific URL and execute malicious code contained in the URL.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published