CVE-2012-0547

unknown
Published 2012-08-30 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 6 and earlier, and 6 Update 34 and earlier, has no impact and remote attack vectors involving AWT and "a security-in-depth issue that is not directly exploitable but which can be used to aggravate security vulnerabilities that can be directly exploited." NOTE: this identifier was assigned by the Oracle CNA, but CVE is not intended to cover defense-in-depth issues that are only exposed by the presence of other vulnerabilities. NOTE: Oracle has not commented on claims from a downstream vendor that this issue is related to "toolkit internals references."

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-20865 remote java verified
Metasploit ยท 2012-08-27

Java 7 Applet - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclejdk1.7.0
oracle oraclejre{"endIncluding":"1.7.0"}
oracle oraclejre1.7.0
oracle oraclejdk{"endIncluding":"1.6.0"}
oracle oraclejdk1.6.0
oracle oraclejre1.6.0
sunjdk1.6.0
sunjre1.6.0

References

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

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