CVE-2000-0854
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 7, 2001
- Updated
- Aug 8, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 18, 2000
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 20000918 Double clicking on MS Office documents from Windows Explorer may execute arbitrary programs in some casesmailing-list
- 20000922 Eudora + riched20.dll affects WinZip v8.0 as wellmailing-list
- 1699vdb-entry
- office-dll-execution(5263)vdb-entry
- 20000921 Mitigators for possible exploit of Eudora via Guninski #21,2000mailing-list
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