Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2000-0597
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.121 (96.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.121 · newest: 0.121 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2000
- Microsoft Powerpoint — versions 97, 2000
References
- www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike (mailing-list)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/1399 (vdb-entry)