CVE-2012-5076

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

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_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.8
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS: 91%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

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
9.8(high)
EPSS
99.8%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

October 16, 2012

Last Modified

April 21, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Apr 30, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

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

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

About Secunia Research | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/51390
generic

About Secunia Research | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/51326
generic

About Secunia Research | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/51029
generic
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1467.html
generic
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1391.html
generic
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1386.html

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuopenjdk-6-jre-lib (6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~12.04.1) @ precise2026-07-21ubuntu
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 88× in last 7d / 387× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 723 total refreshes for this CVE.

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

Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (2 Metasploit modules) (2 Exploit-DB entries). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-24309✓ verified
    First seen Jan 24, 2013

    Java Applet - AverageRangeStatisticImpl Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

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

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

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/browser/java_jre17_glassfish_averagerangestatisticimpl✓ verified
    First seen Oct 16, 2012

    Java Applet AverageRangeStatisticImpl Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/browser/java_jre17_jaxws✓ verified
    First seen Oct 16, 2012

    Java Applet JAX-WS Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2012-5076?
CVE-2012-5076 is a critical vulnerability 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 disclosed?
CVE-2012-5076 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on October 16, 2012, with the most recent update on April 21, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
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 patching attention.
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. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2012-5076?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2012-5076, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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