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critical 9.3

CVE-2012-4821 json

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the JRE component in IBM Java 7 SR2 and earlier, Java 6.0.1 SR3 and earlier, Java 6 SR11 and earlie…

published 2013-01-11 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-4746

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.9%
EPSS 6.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the JRE component in IBM Java 7 SR2 and earlier, Java 6.0.1 SR3 and earlier, Java 6 SR11 and earlier, Java 5 SR14 and earlier, and Java 142 SR13 FP13 and earlier; as used in IBM Rational Host On-Demand, Rational Change, Tivoli Monitoring, Smart Analytics System 5600, Tivoli Remote Control 5.1.2, WebSphere Real Time, Lotus Notes & Domino, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, and Service Deliver Manager; and other products from other vendors such as Red Hat, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "insecure use" of the (1) java.lang.Class getDeclaredMethods or nd (2) java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject setAccessible() methods.

Patch / fix

  • java-1.7.0-ibm RHEL 6 EXTRAS 1:1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3
  • java-1.7.0-ibm-src RHEL 6 EXTRAS 1:1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3
  • java-1.7.0-ibm-demo RHEL 6 EXTRAS 1:1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3
  • java-1.7.0-ibm-jdbc RHEL 6 EXTRAS 1:1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3
  • java-1.7.0-ibm-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 1:1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2012:1467

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-4821 updated cvss 6.8

JDK: getDeclaredMethods() and setAccessible() code execution

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 java-1.7.0-ibm
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-jdbc 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-plugin 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-jdbc 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-plugin 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-jdbc 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3, java-1.7.0-ibm-plugin 1.7.0.3.0-1jpp.2.el6_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1467

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Exploit prediction

6.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.