CVE-2011-1980

Microsoft Office <2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .doc, .ppt, or .xls file, aka "Office Component Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12694
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html

Scores

EPSS 0.1038
EPSS Percentile 95.3%

Details

Status published
Products (2)
microsoft/office 2003 sp3
microsoft/office 2007 sp2
Published Sep 15, 2011
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026