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CVE-2012-1682

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1682 is an unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component of Oracle Java SE 7 Update 6 and earlier, potentially impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a critical risk, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to exploit it with low attack complexity. While Oracle has not confirmed details, some sources link it to an "XMLDecoder security issue via ClassFinder." There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available, though it garnered some community discussion and media coverage at the time.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:*:update6:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:1.7.0:update3:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0540 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.12.0-1jpp.1.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.28.1.10.9.el5_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.49.1.11.4.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.5-2.2.1.el6_3.3
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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: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.5Fixed 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-ibm-1:1.6.0.12.0-1jpp.1.el5_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.7-1jpp.5.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.2.0-1jpp.3.el6_3
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oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1682Critical

OpenJDK: beans ClassFinder insufficient permission checks (beans, 7162476)

Aug 30, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00019.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00032.html
marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1222.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1225.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1466.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1455.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1456.html
secunia.com / advisories/51044
secunia.com / advisories/51327
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2012-4681-1835715.html
Vendor Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1553-1