CVE-2003-0820

CVE-2003-0820 / CVE-2003-0821 describe buffer overrun and macro security bypass in Microsoft Word and Excel (Word 97–2002, Works Suite 2001–2004). Root cause: improper validation of data lengths in Macro Names (Word) and related macro handling, enabling arbitrary code execution when a user opens ...

CVE-2001-0501

CVE-2001-0501 affects Microsoft Word (Word 2002 and earlier). The vulnerability arises from failure to reliably detect macros embedded in malformed Word documents, allowing a document author to execute arbitrary commands as the user who opens the document even if macro security is set to higher l...

CVE-1999-0354

This CVE (CVE-1999-0354) affects Internet Explorer 4.x/5.x when paired with Word 97, where a Word 97 template containing executable Visual Basic code can run arbitrary programs on the IE client without warning. The issue also applies to Outlook when viewing a malicious email. The underlying risk ...

CVE-2001-0240

Microsoft Word before Word 2002 is vulnerable to macros being executed automatically when opening an RTF document that links to a template containing the embedded macro. The root cause is Word’s failure to detect macros embedded in templates referenced by RTF documents, allowing a malicious docum...

CVE-2002-1143

Affected software: Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel (Office suite). Vulnerability: information disclosure via field codes in Word (INCLUDETEXT) and external updates in Excel, allowing remote attackers to insert and exfiltrate local data when a document is returned to the attacker. Root cause: m...

CVE-2003-0664

Microsoft Word 2000/97/98(J)/2002 contains a vulnerability where Word’s macro-security checks fail for certain document properties, allowing a malicious document to bypass macro security and automatically execute arbitrary macros. Impact: remote code execution likely under the user’s privileges w...

CVE-2003-0821

CVE-2003-0821 covers a remote-code-execution vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, and 2002 due to a malicious Excel 4/XLM macro that bypasses the macro security model. Affected products could execute arbitrary code when a user opens a specially crafted spreadsheet, with the attacker potenti...

CVE-2000-0088

CVE-2000-0088 describes a buffer overflow in the conversion utilities for Word 5 documents (Japanese, Korean and Chinese) that allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands. The vulnerability is identified as the "Malformed Conversion Data" issue. The available references indicate a high ...