CVE-2000-0597 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0597?

CVE-2000-0597 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 13 Oct 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0597?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0597?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0597 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2000-0597 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0597 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel

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• CVE-2009-0238 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-7262 Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-3129 Microsoft Excel Featheader Record Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2008-0081 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8

All Microsoft Excel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m2cw-8f75-qf8v.