CVE-2000-0088: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the conversion utilities for Japanese, Korean and Chinese Word 5 documents allows an attacker to execute commands, aka the "Malformed Conversion Data" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: version 97 only; version 2000 only
• Microsoft Office Converter Pack: version 2000.0 only
• Microsoft PowerPoint: version 97 only; version 2000 only
• Microsoft Word: version 97 only; version 98 only; version 2000 only

Published 2000-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.