CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2012-1854
High (7.8) in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). In CISA KEV since 2026-04-13. EPSS 21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CISA KEV
- listed 2026-04-13, due 2026-04-27
- CWE
- CWE-426
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:office
- microsoft:visual_basic_for_applications
- microsoft:visual_basic_for_applications_sdk
References
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-046
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14950
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-046