Cloudanix VulnDB

CVE-2012-1854

High · 7.8 CISA KEV

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

20.9%

Published

Jul 10, 2012

CISA due date

Apr 27, 2026

The record

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.

Affected packages

Ecosystem Package Introduced Fixed