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CVE-2012-0507

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0507 is a critical vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7 and earlier, affecting products from Oracle, Debian, Sun, and SUSE. It allows remote attackers to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability, potentially leading to a denial of service (JVM crash) or sandbox bypass due to an AtomicReferenceArray class implementation flaw. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity. It is actively exploited in the wild, including in known ransomware campaigns, with public Metasploit modules and significant community discussion and media coverage confirming its widespread impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.5.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.5.0:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.5.0:update10:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.5.0:update11:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jre:1.5.0:update12:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
98.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 3, 2022
Metasploit: Java AtomicReferenceArray Type Violation Vulnerability · Feb 14, 2012
ExploitDB: EDB-18679 · Mar 30, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9811 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.25.1.10.6.el5_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.43.1.10.6.el6_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.14.0-1jpp.1.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.31-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.13.1-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.10.1-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.31-1jpp.1.el6_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.13.1-1jpp.2.el6_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.10.1-1jpp.5.el6_2
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oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0507Critical

OpenJDK: AtomicReferenceArray insufficient array type check (Concurrency, 7082299)

Feb 14, 2012

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
blogs.technet.com / b/mmpc/archive/2012/03/20/an-interesting-case-of-jre-sandbox-breach-cve-2012-0507.aspx
Broken LinkThird Party Advisory
krebsonsecurity.com / 2012/03/new-java-attack-rolled-into-exploit-packs
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00009.html
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00010.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
marc.info
Third Party Advisory
marc.info
Third Party Advisory
marc.info
Third Party Advisory
marc.info
Third Party Advisory
marc.info
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0508.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0514.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1455.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
secunia.com / advisories/48589
Broken LinkNot Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/48692
Broken LinkNot Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/48915
Broken LinkNot Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/48948
Broken LinkNot Applicable
secunia.com / advisories/48950
Broken LinkNot Applicable
weblog.ikvm.net / PermaLink.aspx
Broken LinkExploit
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2420
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb2012-366318.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/52161
Broken LinkExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry