CVE-2012-1723

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 2022-03-03), 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
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 94%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · kev ransomware · Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 update 4 and earlier, 6 update 32 and earlier, 5 update 35 and earlier, and 1.4.2_37 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Hotspot.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8(high)
EG Risk
99(Act)
EG Risk 99/100SSVC: Act

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity98% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Fix now — active exploitation, automatable, high impact.
EPSS PROB
94%
EPSS %ILE
100%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

June 16, 2012

Last Modified

August 6, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Aug 20, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. No patch confirmed yet.
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

CVE-2012-1723 - PSIRT.COM

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53960
generic

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

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

'[security bulletin] HPSBUX02805 SSRT100919 rev.1 - HP-UX Running Java, Remote Unauthorized Access, D' - MARC

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134496371727681&w=2
generic

About Secunia Research | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/51080

Patch Availability(6)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuopenjdk-6-jre (6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.04.1) @ natty2026-08-26ubuntu
redhatjava-1.7.0-openjdk-1:1.7.0.5-2.2.1.el6_32012-06-20redhat
redhatjava-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.5-1jpp.1.el62012-06-20redhat
redhatjava-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.33-1jpp.1.el6_22012-06-13redhat
redhatjava-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.48.1.11.3.el6_22012-06-13redhat
redhatjava-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-1.27.1.10.8.el5_82012-06-13redhat

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.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Debian:6.0(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
openjdk-66b18-1.8.10-0+squeeze1 ... 6b18-1.8.9-0.1~squeeze1 (18 versions)6b18-1.8.13-0+squeeze2

Weakness Classification(1)

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

All Vendor Advisories

(6)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 86× in last 7d / 370× 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 1,058 total refreshes for this CVE.

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

Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Metasploit module) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-19717✓ verified
    First seen Jul 11, 2012

    Java Applet - Field Bytecode Verifier Cache Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/browser/java_verifier_field_access✓ verified
    First seen Jun 6, 2012

    Java Applet Field Bytecode Verifier Cache Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2012-1723?
CVE-2012-1723 is a critical vulnerability published on June 16, 2012. Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 update 4 and earlier, 6 update 32 and earlier, 5 update 35 and earlier, and 1.4.2_37 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related…
When was CVE-2012-1723 disclosed?
CVE-2012-1723 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 16, 2012, with the most recent update on August 6, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2012-1723 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2012-1723 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 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-2012-1723?
CVE-2012-1723 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2012-1723?
CVE-2012-1723 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-2012-1723?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2012-1723, 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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