CVE-2011-1980

Published Sep 15, 2011

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .doc, .ppt, or .xls file, aka "Office Component Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."
Source
secure@microsoft.com
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
9.3
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Evaluator

Comment
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'
Impact
Per: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS11-073 Access Vector: Network per "This is a remote code execution vulnerability"
Solution
Per: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS11-073 Access Vector: Network per "This is a remote code execution vulnerability"

Configurations