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CVE-2012-2312

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 18, 2019 at 05:47 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:41 PM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsJBoss Enterprise Application PlatformJBoss Application ServerJBoss Application Server

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

Description

An Elevated Privileges issue exists in JBoss AS 7 Community Release due to the improper implementation in the security context propagation, A threat gets reused from the thread pool that still retains the security context from the process last used, which lets a local user obtain elevated privileges.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-2312
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-2312
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2312

CVSS

7.8HIGH[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-269

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