CVE-2000-0854
N/A
Published: May 7, 2001 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:52 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOffice
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 37%
Description
When a Microsoft Office 2000 document is launched, the directory of that document is first used to locate DLL's such as riched20.dll and msi.dll, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands by inserting a Trojan Horse DLL into the same directory as the document.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (5)
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0277.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2000-q3/0155.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_WIN2KSECVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/win2ksecadvice/2000-q3/0117.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploitPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1699VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5263Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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