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.
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-426
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Metrics kev

{'dateAdded': '2026-04-13T00:00:00+00:00', 'dueDate': '2026-04-27T00:00:00+00:00'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2012-07-10T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2026-04-14T03:55:29.134Z

Reserved: 2012-03-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-1854

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:08:38.695Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-07-10T21:55:05.587

Modified: 2026-04-13T18:16:24.067

Link: CVE-2012-1854

cve-icon Redhat

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