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CVE-2000-0788
The Mail Merge tool in Microsoft Word does not prompt the user before executing Visual Basic (VBA) scripts in an Access database, which…
High10.0EPSS 8.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.4% · top 5.0% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- word-mail-merge(5322) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1566 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS00-071 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20000807 MS Word and MS Access vulnerability - executing arbitrary programs, may be exploited by IE/Outlook (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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