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CVE-2012-1854

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.21028
Risk score
63.56
CISA KEV
Yes
PoC
No
Published
2012-07-10
Modified
2026-04-14
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2012-1864, GHSA-77FM-4W36-VPP3
Products
Microsoft:Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), n/a:n/a n/a
Sources
cisa.gov CVE-2012-1854
euvd EUVD-2012-1864

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.

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