CVE-2012-1854

HIGH KEV

Microsoft Office <2010 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0427
EPSS Percentile 88.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CISA KEV 2026-04-13
VulnCheck KEV 2012-07-10
InTheWild.io 2018-10-12
ENISA EUVD EUVD-2012-1864
CWE
CWE-426
Status published
Products (5)
microsoft/office 2003 sp3
microsoft/office 2007 sp2 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office 2010 (8 CPE variants)
microsoft/visual_basic_for_applications
microsoft/visual_basic_for_applications_sdk
Published Jul 10, 2012
KEV Added Apr 13, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026