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FKIE_CVE-2015-2378

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-07-14 21:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:24

Severity

Summary

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, Excel Viewer 2007 SP3, and Office Compatibility Pack SP3 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, aka "Microsoft Excel DLL Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

References

	URL	Tags
	secure@microsoft.com	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032899
	secure@microsoft.com	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-070
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032899
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-070

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
microsoft	excel	2007
microsoft	excel	2010
microsoft	excel	2010
microsoft	excel_viewer	2007
microsoft	office_compatibility_pack	*

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CVE-2015-2378 (GCVE-0-2015-2378)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-14 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:10

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

microsoft mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032899	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS

Date Public

2015-07-14 00:00

Show details on NVD website

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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