CVE-2012-1854
HIGH KEVMicrosoft Office <2010 - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
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