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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2000-0593 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:21:31.243Z

Reserved: 2000-07-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2000-0597

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2000-06-27T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2000-0597

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