CVE-2000-0854: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 37.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Microsoft Office: version 2000 only

Published 2000-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.