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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…
High10.0EPSS 37.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 23 years later
· 23 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 37.2% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 20000918 Double clicking on MS Office documents from Windows Explorer may execute arbitrary programs in some cases (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_WIN2KSECx_transferred
- 20000922 Eudora + riched20.dll affects WinZip v8.0 as well (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1699 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- office-dll-execution(5263) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20000921 Mitigators for possible exploit of Eudora via Guninski #21,2000 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2000-0854)Record last updated .