CVE-2012-1541: Oracle JDK

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 10.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 through Update 11 and 6 through Update 38 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Deployment, a different vulnerability than other CVEs listed in the February 2013 CPU. NOTE: the previous information is from the February 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a third party that the issue is due to an interaction error in between the JRE plug-in for WebKit-based browsers and the Javascript engine, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by modifying DOM nodes that contain applet elements in a way that triggers an incorrect reference count and a use after free.

Affected products

• Oracle JDK: version 1.7.0 only; version 1.6.0 only
• Oracle JRE: version 1.7.0 only; version 1.6.0 only
• Sun JDK: version 1.6.0 only
• Sun JRE: version 1.6.0 only

Published 2013-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.