High severity · published Dec 18, 2019
CVE-2012-2312
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…
7.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 22% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JA
Jboss Application Server · Redhat
7.1.0; 7.1.1 · source: NVD
JE
Jboss Enterprise Application Platform · Redhat
6.0.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2312
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2312
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-2312
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-2312
Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2312
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