CVE-2000-0597
Microsoft Office 2000 (Excel and PowerPoint) and PowerPoint 97 are marked as safe for scripting,...
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.
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
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.
- Record
CVE-2000-0597- CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 High
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
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.
- Record
CVE-2000-0597- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2000-0593 No score
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.
- Record
EUVD-2000-0593- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-m2cw-8f75-qf8v No score
Microsoft Office 2000 (Excel and PowerPoint) and PowerPoint 97 are marked as safe for scripting,...
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.
- Record
GHSA-m2cw-8f75-qf8v- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2000-0597 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Microsoft Excel, published June 27, 2000. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.1%, the 96th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=39589349.ED9DBCAB%40nat.bg
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0597
github.com/advisories/GHSA-m2cw-8f75-qf8v