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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2000-0854 in the critical feed json

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 ms…

published 2000-11-14 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2000-0841

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
37.2%
EPSS 37.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20232)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

37.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20232 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/2000 - DLL Search Path local, 2000-09-18
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1699 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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