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CVE-2012-1854

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CVE-2012-1854

Published: Jul 10, 2012

Modified: Apr 14, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

TA12-192A
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_CERT
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14950
vdb-entry
signature
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MS12-046
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MS

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