{"id":"CVE-2015-2378","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-2378","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:55:41.212Z","title":"Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, Excel Viewer 2007 SP3, and Office Compatibility Pack SP3 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, aka \"Microsoft Excel…","description":"Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, Excel Viewer 2007 SP3, and Office Compatibility Pack SP3 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, aka \"Microsoft Excel DLL Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.\"","published":"2015-07-14T21:59:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:24:01.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secure@microsoft.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":[],"affected":["microsoft/excel","microsoft/excel viewer","microsoft/office compatibility pack"],"epss":{"score":0.06135,"percentile":0.93402,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (6.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032899","source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-070","source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032899","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-070","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2378","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}