CVE-2000-0597: Microsoft Excel

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 12.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Microsoft Excel: version 2000 only
• Microsoft PowerPoint: version 97 only; version 2000 only

Published 2000-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.