VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2007-0012

CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.88%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-01-09
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references