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CVE-2012-5085

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5085 describes an unspecified vulnerability within the Networking component of Oracle Java SE and JRE, affecting versions 7u7 and earlier, 6u35 and earlier, 5.0u36 and earlier, and 1.4.2_38 and earlier. Despite being listed as a CVE, Oracle assigned it a CVSS score of 0.0, indicating no security impact, and it is not considered a true vulnerability. The attack vector is network-based with medium complexity, requiring authentication, but there is no impact on confidentiality, integrity, or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:*:update7:*:*:*:*:*:*
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

0.0LOW

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
0.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0217 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 1,637 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (16)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.28.1.10.10.el5_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.50.1.11.5.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.el6_3.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.37-1jpp.1.el5_8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.13.0-1jpp.2.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.4.0-1jpp.2.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.9-1jpp.3.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.37-1jpp.1.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.13.0-1jpp.3.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.4.0-1jpp.2.el6_4
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.4.2-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-2012-5085Low

OpenJDK: disable Gopher support by default (Gopher, 7189567)

Oct 16, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00023.html
marc.info
marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1385.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1386.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1391.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1392.html
secunia.com / advisories/51028
secunia.com / advisories/51029
secunia.com / advisories/51141
secunia.com / advisories/51166
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16654
hitachi.co.jp / Prod/comp/soft1/global/security/info/vuls/HS12-023/index.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2012-1515893.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2012-1515924.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/56067
xerox.com / download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf