CVE-2012-1854

7.8

CVSS
High

PUBLISHED

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VBE6.dll in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 Gold and SP1; Microsoft Visual Basic for...

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Exploited in the wild Low complexity

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Office
Published: Jul 10, 2012
EPSS: 3.6% · 88% pctl

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Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VBE6.dll in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 Gold and SP1; Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and Summit Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications SDK allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .docx file, aka "Visual Basic for Applications Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability," as exploited in the wild in July 2012.

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-426

Untrusted Search Path

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 7.8 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 6.9 Medium

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2012-07-10 21:00:00 UTC · CVE

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CVE First	2012-07-10 21:00 UTC
CISA	2026-06-02 14:02 UTC

Vulnerability detail