CVE-2012-2312

HIGH

JBoss Application Server - Elevated Privileges via Security Context Reuse

Title source: llm

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.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2312

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-2312

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-2312

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0029

EPSS Percentile 21.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (3)

redhat/jboss_application_server 7.1.0

redhat/jboss_application_server 7.1.1

redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform 6.0.0 beta

Published Dec 18, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026