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.
Is CVE-2012-1854 exploited?
Listed in the CISA KEV catalog on 2026-04-13.
Federal remediation due 2026-04-27.
Past that date by 110 days.
EPSS puts exploitation in the next 30 days at 21%.
Public exploit code: none found in monitored sources.