CVE-2012-1854
high-risk
Published 2012-07-10
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.
Do I need to act?
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1.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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CISA KEV: actively exploited in the wild
On the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — federal agencies must patch
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
7
CVSS 7.8/10
High
LOCAL
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (9)
Affected Vendors
References (8)
US Government Resource
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.html
US Government Resource
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.html
50
/ 100
high-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
11/34 · Low
Exposure
15/34 · Moderate