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CVE-2011-1980

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1980 is an untrusted search path vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP2, allowing local users to gain privileges by executing a malicious DLL placed in the same directory as an Office document. This vulnerability carries a critical CVSS score of 9.3, indicating a high potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with medium attack complexity. Despite its severity and high FAUCET risk score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2007CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1038 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 8,913 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-073
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12694
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html
US Government Resource