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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 27, 2000· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2000-0597

CVE-2000-0597

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.

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Affected products

5
  • Microsoft/Excel
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Microsoft/Powerpoint3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:97:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
  • Microsoft/Office 2000llm-fuzzy

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