CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0854

10.0 HIGH Published 2000-11-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-11-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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 configurations

• microsoft office 2000

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References