7.5

CVE-2000-0597: microsoft excel

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
Published 13-10-2000Last modified 08-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2000-0597 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in microsoft excel. EPSS estimates a 12.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
12.15%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 13-10-2000
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

12.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 12.15% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
12.15%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Microsoft2 products

1 vendor · 2 products

References

3 links