CVE•Published 2012-07-10•Modified 2026-04-13•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2012-1854Microsoft · Office
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
94
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 6% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in VBE6.dll in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 Gold and SP1; Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and Summit Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications SDK allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .docx file, aka "Visual Basic for Applications Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability," as exploited in the wild in July 2012.
Timeline
Published 2012-07-10
Modified 2026-04-13
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2012-1854Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Microsoft Office" version:"2003"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Office"HTTP body or banner mentions "Office" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2012-1854Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2012-1854Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2012-1854Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2012-1854GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2012-1854" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.