CVE-2000-0597 Information

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.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1399 http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=39589349.ED9DBCAB@nat.bg https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049