CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0277
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-04-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-254
Description
Microsoft Excel 97 and 2000 does not warn the user when executing Excel Macro Language (XLM) macros in external text files, which could allow an attacker to execute a macro virus, aka the "XLM Text Macro" vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• microsoft excel 97
• microsoft excel 2000
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-356 Missing User Interaction for Potentially Unsafe Action weakness
References
- http://www.osvdb.org/1272 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1087 Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-022 docs.microsoft.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/1272 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1087 Third Party Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-022 docs.microsoft.com