CVE-2012-1854
CWE-426
90.7
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
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.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 21.02%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Apr 2026
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-426
- Published
- 10 Jul 2012
- Last modified 22 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time