Java 7 Update 80 Vulnerabilities May 2026

Java 7 Update 80: The End-of-Life Relic and Its Critical Vulnerabilities

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• WannaCry variant targeting legacy hospital systems (2017) – Some Java 7 update 80‑based management consoles were used as entry points.
• CVE-2017-3241 (Java RMI deserialization) – Exploited in the wild to compromise financial servers.
• EternalBlue + Java 7 app servers – Attackers gained initial access via SMB, then used Java 7 update 80 to execute Mimikatz via unpatched deserialization.
• Apache Solr (runs on Java 7 update 80 in some legacy setups) – exploited via CVE-2019-0192 (deserialization).

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Notable CVEs and classes of vulnerabilities (representative, not exhaustive) Java 7 Update 80: The End-of-Life Relic and