CVE-2000-0854

Office vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

37.2%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

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 vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Office

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published

2000-11-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 37.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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