CVE-2011-1980: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 10.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .doc, .ppt, or .xls file, aka "Office Component Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: version 2003 only; version 2007 only

Published 2011-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.