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CVE-2012-2312

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2312 is an elevated privileges vulnerability affecting JBoss AS 7 Community Release and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. It arises from improper security context propagation, allowing a local user to gain elevated privileges by exploiting reused threads that retain previous security contexts. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability presents a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_application_server:7.1.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
7.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_application_server:7.1.1:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
21.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0029 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2312Moderate

7: Security Context Propagation - When re-using thread from thread pool, security context also gets re-used

Apr 30, 2012

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/cve-2012-2312
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2012-2312
Third Party Advisory