RULE(RULE ID:305554)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2015-09-07
Rule Name: Microsoft Visual Basic Applications Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1854)
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Rule Protection Details
Description: Untrusted search path vulnerability in VBE6.dll in Microsoft Office 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 Gold and SP1; Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and Summit Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications SDK allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, aka "Visual Basic for Applications Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability," as exploited in the wild in July 2012.
Impact: An attacker can execute arbitrary code via a successful exploit in the context of the vulnerable software.
Affected OS: Windows
Reference: MicrosoftSecurityBulletin:MS12-046
Solutions
Microsoft has released a patch MS12-046 to eliminate the vulnerability. The patch can be downloaded at http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS12-046