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CVE-2000-0854

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2000-11-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Office

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References