CVE-2012-4420

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
Description
An information disclosure flaw was found in the way the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation of Java SE 7 as provided by OpenJDK 7 incorrectly initialized integer arrays after memory allocation (in certain circumstances they had nonzero elements right after the allocation). A remote attacker could use this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2012-4420
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-12-26T21:15:11
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-01-14T17:33:36
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-200 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jdk:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4420 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-4420 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/3 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78693 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55538 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/12/4 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7196857 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4420
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4420
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:53:45 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 08:39:03 2019-12-26T21:15Z 2019-12-26T21:15:11 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 08:39:03 2020-01-14T17:33:36 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 08:39:03 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated