CVE-2000-0637 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0637?

CVE-2000-0637 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 13 Oct 2000. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Excel 97 and 2000 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands by specifying a malicious .dll using the Register.ID function, aka the "Excel REGISTER.ID Function" vulnerability.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0637?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Excel.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0637?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0637 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-2000-0637 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0637 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2008-0081 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-977m-wr29-gj29.