THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2000-0597
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2000-0597

Excel vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
12.1%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Excel
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2000-06-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2000-0597

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Excel is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2000-0597.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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