CVE-2000-0788

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 24 years ago

2000-10-20 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Access 2000

2000

Microsoft Word 2000

2000

References

1566

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

20000807 MS Word and MS Access vulnerability - executing arbitrary programs, may be exploited by IE/Outlook

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

MS00-071

word-mail-merge(5322)

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