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 com...
HighCVSS 10.0
EPSS 37.2%
Public exploit
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- Public exploit available
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 products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft office | = 2000 | No fix listed |
References
- 20000922 Eudora + riched20.dll affects WinZip v8.0 as well mailing-list
- 20000921 Mitigators for possible exploit of Eudora via Guninski #21,2000 mailing-list
- 20000918 Double clicking on MS Office documents from Windows Explorer may execute arbitrary programs in some cases mailing-list vendor-advisory
- 1699 exploit patch vdb-entry vendor-advisory
- office-dll-execution(5263) vdb-entry