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CVE-2007-0012 Sun JRE

Affected softwareSun JRE
Severity4.3 Medium CVSS 2.0
WeaknessImproper input validation (CWE-20)
Published9 Jan 2008
Updated16 Jun 2026

Description

Sun JRE 5.0 before update 14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) via an object tag with an encoded applet and an undefined name attribute, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference in jpiexp32.dll when the applet is decoded and passed to the JVM.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 18 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 1.9% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

VRT has not found a public code change for this CVE yet.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read
Finding This CVE affects a known product, but nothing published names a fix and nothing published shows an exploit. That is a statement about the evidence, not about the defect — it does not mean the vulnerability is unimportant or unreachable, only that neither of the two things VRT can act on exists.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

1 product, 1 version entry
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd sun jre javase ≤ 5.0.0.0

References

URLTags
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3527
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485942/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27185
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39549

Timeline

Published2008-01-09By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-16NVD's own last-modified date for this record.