CVE-2000-0788: Microsoft Access

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Mail Merge tool in Microsoft Word does not prompt the user before executing Visual Basic (VBA) scripts in an Access database, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Microsoft Access: version 2000 only
• Microsoft Word: version 2000 only

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.