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CVE-2000-0597

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.

Published: Jun 27, 2000 Modified: Apr 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (3)

Vendor Product Version
microsoft excel 2000
microsoft powerpoint 97
microsoft powerpoint 2000

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-m2cw-8f75-qf8v

Microsoft Office 2000 (Excel and PowerPoint) and PowerPoint 97 are marked as safe for scripting,...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 7.5 / 10
EPSS Score 9.56%

Top 7% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 32.9 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub