CVE-2011-1975: Microsoft Windows 7

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 42.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Data Access Tracing component in Windows Data Access Components (Windows DAC) 6.0 in Microsoft Windows 7 Gold and SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and R2 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains an Excel .xlsx file, aka "Data Access Components Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

Affected products

  • Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: version r2 only

Published 2011-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.