CVE-2012-1854

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'

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.

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Office

First reported 12 years ago

2012-07-10 21:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 22:02:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3

2003

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2

2007

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3

2007

Microsoft Office 2010 for x86 (32-bit Systems)

2010

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1

2010

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 for 64 bit systems (x64)

2010

Microsoft Office 2010 for x86 (32-bit Systems) Service Pack 1

2010

References

TA12-192A

US Government Resource

MS12-046

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14950

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