VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0500

critical
Published 2012-02-15 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 2 and earlier, 6 Update 30 and earlier, and JavaFX 2.0.2 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Deployment.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18520 remote windows verified
Metasploit · 2012-02-24

Sun Java Web Start Plugin - Command Line Argument Injection (2012) (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/browser/java_ws_vmargs rank 600
Sun Java Web Start Plugin Command Line Argument Injection
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclejre{"endIncluding":"1.6.0"}
oracle oraclejre1.6.0
sunjre1.6.0
oracle oraclejre1.7.0
oracle oraclejavafx{"endIncluding":"2.0.2"}
oracle oraclejavafx1.2
oracle oraclejavafx1.2.2
oracle oraclejavafx1.2.3
oracle oraclejavafx1.3.0
oracle oraclejavafx1.3.1
oracle oraclejavafx2.0

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.