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CVE-2012-4301

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the JavaFX component in Oracle Java SE JavaFX 2.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than other CVEs listed in the February 2013 CPU. NOTE: the previous information is from the February 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a third party that this issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an "invalid type case" in the init method of the D3DShader class in the com.sun.prism.d3d package. CPU.

Affected products

• Oracle Javafx: through 2.2.4; 2.0, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.3

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136733161405818&w=2
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/858729
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb2013-1841061.html
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA13-032A.html
• http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/network-intelligence-availability/idefense/public-vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1027
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16180
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136733161405818&w=2
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/858729
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb2013-1841061.html
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA13-032A.html
• http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/network-intelligence-availability/idefense/public-vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1027
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16180

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