CVE-2000-0854

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5263

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/win2ksecadvice/2000-q3/0117.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2000-q3/0155.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0277.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2000-11-14

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.37213