CVE-2000-0854 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0854?

CVE-2000-0854 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 7 May 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0854?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0854?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0854 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2000-0854 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2000-0854 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3wxj-j5hp-5gfc.