Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2012-2312 (CCN-174779)

Assigned:2012-04-19
Published:2014-05-04
Updated:2019-12-23
Summary: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.
CVSS v3 Severity:7.8 High (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
6.8 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availibility (A): High
8.4 High (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
7.3 High (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availibility (A): High
CVSS v2 Severity:4.6 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availibility (A): Partial
7.2 High (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availibility (A): Complete
Vulnerability Type:CWE-269
Vulnerability Consequences:Denial of Service
References:Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2012-2312

Source: MISC
Type: Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-2312

Source: CCN
Type: Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 818837
(CVE-2012-2312) - CVE-2012-2312 JBoss AS 7: Security Context Propagation - When re-using thread from thread pool, security context also gets re-used

Source: MISC
Type: Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-2312

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
jboss-cve20122312-priv-esc(174779)

Source: CCN
Type: JbBoss Web site
JBoss Application Server - JBoss Community

Source: MISC
Type: Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2312

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_application_server:7.1.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_application_server:7.1.1:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*

    • Configuration CCN 1:
  • cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_application_server:7.1.1:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

    • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    Oval Definitions
    Definition IDClassTitleLast Modified
    oval:com.ubuntu.precise:def:20122312000
    V
    		CVE-2012-2312 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) - medium.
    2012-12-31
    oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20122312000
    V
    		CVE-2012-2312 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium.
    2012-12-31
    BACK
    redhat jboss application server 7.1.0
    redhat jboss application server 7.1.1
    redhat jboss enterprise application platform 6.0.0 beta
    redhat jboss application server 7.1.1