sun jre CVE-2012-0507 vulnerability in Sun and Other Products
Published on June 7, 2012

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Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 2 and earlier, 6 Update 30 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 33 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Concurrency. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the February 2012 Oracle CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a downstream vendor and third party researchers that this issue occurs because the AtomicReferenceArray class implementation does not ensure that the array is of the Object[] type, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (JVM crash) or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. NOTE: this issue was originally mapped to CVE-2011-3571, but that identifier was already assigned to a different issue.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. An incorrect type vulnerability exists in the Concurrency component of Oracle's Java Runtime Environment allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by March 24, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2012-0507 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is an Object Type Confusion Vulnerability?

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

CVE-2012-0507 has been classified to as an Object Type Confusion vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2012-0507

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Sun Jre
 
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Debian Linux
 
Suse Linux Enterprise Server
 
Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
 
Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop
 
Suse Linux Enterprise Java
 
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Exploit Probability

EPSS
93.65%
Percentile
99.83%

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