How severe is CVE-2012-1723?

CVE-2012-1723 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 93.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2012-1723: Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-03

Remediation due

2022-03-24

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1723

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 update 4 and earlier, 6 update 32 and earlier, 5 update 35 and earlier, and 1.4.2_37 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Hotspot.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA9.8 CRITICAL

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

10 Links

Vendor advisories

Third-party advisories

51080

Mailing lists

[OpenJDK] 20120612 IcedTea6 1.10.8 & 1.11.3 Released

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2012-06-16

Last updated

2026-08-06

Assigner (CNA)

oracle

Credited to

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