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3 vulnerabilities found for visual_basic_for_applications_sdk by microsoft

CVE-2012-1854 (GCVE-0-2012-1854)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2012-07-10 21:00 – Updated: 2026-04-14 03:55
VLAI?
Summary
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.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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Date Public ?
2012-07-10 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-07-10 21:55 - Updated: 2026-04-22 16:05
Summary
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CVE-2012-1854 (GCVE-0-2012-1854)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-07-10 21:00 – Updated: 2026-04-14 03:55
VLAI?
Summary
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.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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Date Public ?
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