CVEvulnerability
CVE-2000-0597
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2000-06-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Microsoft Office 2000 (Excel and PowerPoint) and PowerPoint 97 are marked as safe for scripting, which allows remote attackers to force Internet Explorer or some email clients to save files to arbitrary locations via the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) SaveAs function, aka the "Office HTML Script" vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• microsoft excel 2000
• microsoft powerpoint 97
• microsoft powerpoint 2000
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1399 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=39589349.ED9DBCAB%40nat.bg www.securityfocus.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049 docs.microsoft.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1399 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=39589349.ED9DBCAB%40nat.bg www.securityfocus.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049 docs.microsoft.com