CVE-2012-5076: Oracle Java SE Sandbox Bypass Vulnerability

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-03-28
EPSS: 91.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 7 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability, related to JAX-WS.

Affected products

Oracle Java SE: 1.7.0, 1.7.0-update1, 1.7.0-update2, 1.7.0-update3, 1.7.0-update4, 1.7.0-update5 (+2)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00016.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1386.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1391.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1467.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51029
http://secunia.com/advisories/51326
http://secunia.com/advisories/51390
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2012-1515924.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16641
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00016.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1386.html

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