CVE-2012-4572

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) before 6.1.0 and JBoss Portal before 6.1.0 does not load the implementation of a custom authorization module for a new application when an implementation is already loaded and the modules share class names, which allows local users to control certain applications' authorization decisions via a crafted application.

Affected products

Red Hat JBoss EAP: through 6.0.1; 4.2.0, 4.3.0, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.1.0, 5.1.1 (+5)
RedHat Jboss Enterprise Portal Platform: through 6.0.0; 4.3.0, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.2.0 (+2)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0833.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0834.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1437.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0833.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0834.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1437.html

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