CVE-2012-0016: Microsoft Expression Design

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 21.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Expression Design; Expression Design SP1; and Expression Design 2, 3, and 4 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .xpr or .DESIGN file, aka "Expression Design Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Expression Design: affected versions not specified; version 2 only; version 3 only; version 4 only

Published 2012-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.