CVE-2001-0003 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2001-0003?

CVE-2001-0003 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 7 May 2001. 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

Web Extender Client (WEC) in Microsoft Office 2000, Windows 2000, and Windows Me does not properly process Internet Explorer security settings for NTLM authentication, which allows attackers to obtain NTLM credentials and possibly obtain the password, aka the "Web Client NTLM Authentication" vulnerability.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-0003?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Me, Microsoft Windows Nt.

How do I fix CVE-2001-0003?

No fix has been published for CVE-2001-0003 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2001-0003 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2001-0003 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g7v5-rc2j-fqgg.