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 encod…

published 2008-01-09 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-0016

cvss: 4.3; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.9%; EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-0012 updated 2025-11-21

J2RE DoS with undefined name attribute

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

securityfocus.com /archive/1/485942/100/0/threaded
mailing-list
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/39549
vdb-entry
securityfocus.com /bid/27185
vdb-entry
securityreason.com /securityalert/3527
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2007-0012
NVD CVE-2007-0012

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Summary