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CVE-2012-1724

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1724 is an unspecified vulnerability within the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component, impacting Oracle Java SE 7 update 4 and earlier, and 6 update 32 and earlier, specifically related to JAXP. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and allows remote attackers to cause a partial denial of service (availability impact) with low attack complexity and no authentication required. 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
<= 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:*:update4:*:*:*:*:*:*
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

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0392 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.27.1.10.8.el5_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.48.1.11.3.el6_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.5-1jpp.1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.33-1jpp.1.el5_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.33-1jpp.1.el6_2
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oraclevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1724Moderate

OpenJDK: XML parsing infinite loop (JAXP, 7157609)

Jun 12, 2012

References

mail.openjdk.java.net / pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-June/019076.html
marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0734.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16659
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/javacpujun2012-1515912.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/53958