Description
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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/2000 - DLL Search Path EDB-20232 · local · Sep 18, 2000 · verified
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References
- 20000918 Double clicking on MS Office documents from Windows Explorer may execute arbitrary programs in some cases mailing-list
- 20000922 Eudora + riched20.dll affects WinZip v8.0 as well mailing-list
- 1699 vdb-entry
- office-dll-execution(5263) vdb-entry
- 20000921 Mitigators for possible exploit of Eudora via Guninski #21,2000 mailing-list