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CVE-2001-0718
Vulnerability in (1) Microsoft Excel 2002 and earlier and (2) Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and earlier allows attackers to bypass macro…
High7.5EPSS 11.1%
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- mitre
Description
Vulnerability in (1) Microsoft Excel 2002 and earlier and (2) Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and earlier allows attackers to bypass macro restrictions and execute arbitrary commands by modifying the data stream in the document.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 months later
· 5 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.1% · top 4.1% 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 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 3402 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ms-malformed-document-macro(7223) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- MS01-050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- CA-2001-28 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- VU#287067 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 20011005 Symantec Security Response SecBul-10042001, Revision1, Malformed Microsoft Excel or PowerPoint documents bypass Microsoft macro security features (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)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- 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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