High severity7.8CISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2012-1854
CVE-2012-1854
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.
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Affected products
11cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 7 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2010:sp1:*:*:*:*:x64:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2010:sp1:*:*:*:*:x86:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2010:-:*:*:*:*:x64:*
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2010:-:*:*:*:*:x86:*
- (no CPE)range: 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, 2010 Gold and SP1
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic_for_applications:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic_for_applications:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic_for_applications_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
5- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-046nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2012/ms12-046nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.htmlnvdUS Government Resource
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14950nvdBroken Link
- www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalognvdUS Government Resource
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