CVE-2000-0597
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2000-10-13 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:21
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1399
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=39589349.ED9DBCAB%40nat.bg
cve@mitre.orghttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049
Impacted products
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