VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-1854

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability20.87%
CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability
Published2012-07-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Known Exploited Vulnerability

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability

Vendor / product: Microsoft / Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path

Primary references