CVE-2001-0005: Microsoft PowerPoint

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the parsing mechanism of the file loader in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Microsoft PowerPoint: version 2000 only

Published 2001-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.