Vulnerability in Microsoft Office

CVE-2000-0854

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.

EPSS: 0.372 (98.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2000-0854?
CVE-2000-0854 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Office. Published 2000-11-14.
Is CVE-2000-0854 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.