A Hybrid Information Flow Analysis Framework for Android Hybrid Apps
A new hybrid-analysis framework tracks information flows across Java and JavaScript boundaries in Android WebView apps — closing a blind spot that single-language SAST tools have long missed.
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arXiv:2610.27288v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The WebView interface in Android (hybrid) applications enables the native side (e.g., Java) to exchange data with the Web (e.g., JavaScript). This creates cross-language information flow channels that existing single-language analyzers cannot analyze. Existing hybrid app analyses address only part of the problem: some build bridge-aware call graphs but provide limited information-flow analysis, some rely on coarse assumptions, and some focus onl
Editorial Analysis
Enterprise mobile apps heavily use WebView; untracked cross-language data flows can leak sensitive information to JavaScript contexts with weaker security controls.
Assess whether your mobile application SAST toolchain can track cross-language flows through WebView and add hybrid-analysis coverage if not.
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