High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 18, 2019· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-2312
CVE-2012-2312
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.
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Affected products
5cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_application_server:7.1.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_application_server:7.1.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_application_server:7.1.1:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
- JBoss AS 7/JBossv5Range: AS 7 Community Release
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References
3- access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-2312nvdVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2312nvdThird Party Advisory
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