CVE-2000-0597

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Summary

CVECVE-2000-0597
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2000-06-27 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMicrosoft 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Excel 2000 All All All
Application Microsoft Powerpoint 2000 All All All
Application Microsoft Powerpoint 97 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and Excel/Powerpoint 2000 ActiveX Object Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
BugTraq Archive: IE 5 and Excel 2000, PowerPoint 2000 vulnerability - executing programs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-049 - Critical | Microsoft Docs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.microsoft.com
BugTraq Archive: IE 5 and Excel 2000, PowerPoint 2000 vulnerability - executing programs MITRE www.securityfocus.com
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