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

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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 Oct 13, 2000

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 12.15%

Description

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 products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

12.15% 0.12148

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.12148

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	12.15% (0.12148)	96.04th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	12.15% (0.12148)	95.62th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	9.56% (0.09559)	92.28th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	2.11% (0.02109)	89.60th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	2.11% (0.02109)	88.79th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 8, 2023	2.75% (0.02754)	89.45th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.91% (0.00909)	80.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	13.53% (0.13525)	95.77th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	13.53% (0.13525)	95.40th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	13.53% (0.13525)	90.66th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1399
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=39589349.ED9DBCAB%40nat.bg
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1399		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=39589349.ED9DBCAB%40nat.bg		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 13, 2000

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Jul 19, 2000

Link CVE-2000-0597

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2000-0597

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2000-0597