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CVE-2000-0597 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049 CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1399 CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=39589349.ED9DBCAB%40nat.bg CVE
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049 [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1399 [email protected]

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
NVD-CWE-OtherWeakness Not in a Standard CWE Category[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
microsoft excel
2000

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
microsoft powerpoint
97
2000

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:97:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2000-0597
NVD Published Date:
Jun 27, 2000
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2000-0597 Details - Not Deferred