During a customer project, we could bypass the biometric authentication mechanism of Ionic Identity Vault on Android, because the Android KeyStore entry does not require any authentication. This post shows how this was done and how it can be exploited.
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Mobile applications nowadays make heavy use of WebViews in order to render their user interfaces. Frameworks such as PhoneGap / Apache Cordova are even used to implement most of the application’s functionalities using WebViews only.
While native code, both in Android and in iOS, can quickly be analyzed using dynamic analysis tools like Frida, operations performed in WebViews cannot be easily debugged with the same methods.
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