CVE-2012-5076

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-28), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2012-4999 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 91%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified)Exposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 7 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability, related to JAX-WS.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
99
EG Risk 99/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
91%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
91% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5076

Published

October 16, 2012

Last Modified

April 21, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 29, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available.
Web page

IcedTea JDK: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201406-32) — Gentoo security

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/51390
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/51326
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/51029

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuopenjdk-6-jre-lib (6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.04.1) @ natty2026-11-02ubuntu
redhatjava-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_32012-11-15redhat
redhatjava-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.9-1jpp.3.el6_32012-10-18redhat
redhatjava-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.9-2.3.3.el6_3.12012-10-17redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(4)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 180× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,837 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,737 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 05:07 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 05:07 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 05:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-01 05:15 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-11-01 05:15 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-01 05:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-31 05:24 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-31 05:24 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-31 05:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-30 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  11. 2026-10-30 05:31 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-30 05:31 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-30 05:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-10-29 05:39 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-29 05:39 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-29 05:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-10-28 05:48 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-28 05:48 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-28 05:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  21. 2026-10-27 05:56 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-27 05:56 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-27 05:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-26 06:04 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-26 06:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-10-25 20:11 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  3. 2026-10-25 06:12 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-25 06:12 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-25 06:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-24 06:20 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-24 06:20 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-24 06:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-23 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  10. 2026-10-23 06:26 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-23 06:26 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-23 06:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-22 06:34 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-22 06:34 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-22 06:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  17. 2026-10-21 06:40 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-21 06:40 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-21 06:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-20 06:49 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-20 06:49 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-20 06:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-19 06:57 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-19 06:57 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-19 06:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-18 07:04 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-18 07:04 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-18 07:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  29. 2026-10-17 07:09 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-17 07:09 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-17 07:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  32. 2026-10-16 07:17 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-10-16 07:17 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-16 07:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  35. 2026-10-15 07:25 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-10-15 07:25 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-15 07:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  38. 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  39. 2026-10-14 07:32 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-14 07:32 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-14 07:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  42. 2026-10-13 07:39 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-13 07:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  44. 2026-10-12 21:28 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-12 07:47 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-12 07:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  47. 2026-10-12 03:48 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-12 03:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  49. 2026-10-11 23:53 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-11 23:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  51. 2026-10-11 19:57 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-10-11 19:57 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-11 19:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  54. 2026-10-11 16:01 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-10-11 16:01 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-11 16:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  57. 2026-10-11 12:06 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-11 12:06 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-11 12:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  60. 2026-10-11 08:10 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-11 08:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  62. 2026-10-11 04:14 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-10-11 04:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  64. 2026-10-11 00:18 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-11 00:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  66. 2026-10-10 20:22 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-10-10 20:22 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-10 20:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  69. 2026-10-10 19:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 91% · 99th percentile
  70. 2026-10-10 16:27 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-10-10 16:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  72. 2026-10-10 12:32 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-10 12:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  74. 2026-10-10 08:37 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-10 08:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v7gg-cccr-jpfx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8

Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 Metasploit modules, 2 Exploit-DB entries). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Metasploitexploit/multi/browser/java_jre17_glassfish_averagerangestatisticimpl✓ verified
    Published Feb 21, 2013

    Java Applet AverageRangeStatisticImpl Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-24309✓ verified
    Published Jan 24, 2013

    Java Applet - AverageRangeStatisticImpl Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/browser/java_jre17_jaxws✓ verified
    Published Dec 18, 2012

    Java Applet JAX-WS Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-22657✓ verified
    Published Nov 13, 2012

    Java Applet - JAX-WS Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2012-5076?
CVE-2012-5076 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 16, 2012. Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 7 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability, related to JAX-WS.
When was CVE-2012-5076 made public?
CVE-2012-5076 was made public on October 16, 2012: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Oracle, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on October 16, 2012. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 21, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2012-5076 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2012-5076 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 28, 2022, affecting Oracle Java SE. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2012-5076?
CVE-2012-5076 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2012-5076?
CVE-2012-5076 affects Oracle Java SE.
How do I remediate CVE-2012-5076?
A fix for CVE-2012-5076 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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