01 Record
CVE-2000-0854
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 37.21% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 98.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2001-05-07 04:00Z25 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 05:37Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2000-10-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f12a3283cf7057c432b9abf5ac5a8994fcae0e388ba467fed380c81df059fe90
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- archives.neohapsis.com20000918 Double clicking on MS Office documents from Windows Explorer may execute arbitrary programs in some caseshttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/win2ksecadvice/2000-q3/0117.html
- archives.neohapsis.com20000922 Eudora + riched20.dll affects WinZip v8.0 as wellhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-09/0277.html
- www.securityfocus.com1699http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1699
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comoffice-dll-execution(5263)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5263
- archives.neohapsis.com20000921 Mitigators for possible exploit of Eudora via Guninski #21,2000http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2000-q3/0155.html