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CVE-2012-5478

The AuthorizationInterceptor in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) before 5.2.0, Web Platform (EWP) before 5.2.0, BRMS Platform…

Medium4.9EPSS 2.2%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
redhat

Description

The AuthorizationInterceptor in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) before 5.2.0, Web Platform (EWP) before 5.2.0, BRMS Platform before 5.3.1, and SOA Platform before 5.3.1 does not properly restrict access, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended role restrictions and perform arbitrary JMX operations via unspecified vectors.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By redhat

  2. · 3 months later

    Published

  3. · 12 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2012-5478, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Medium4.9AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.

Weakness

Affected products

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    • affected n/a

References (15)

Sources

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