THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2011-1980
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2011-1980

Office vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
10.4%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .doc, .ppt, or .xls file, aka "Office Component Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Office
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2011-09-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium 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 10.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-1980

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Office is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-1980.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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