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CVE-2002-0618
The Macro Security Model in Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute code in the Local Computer zone…
High7.5EPSS 14.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The Macro Security Model in Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute code in the Local Computer zone by embedding HTML scripts within an Excel workbook that contains an XSL stylesheet, aka "Excel XSL Stylesheet Script Execution".
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 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)
- 14.5% · top 3.3% 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 (5)
- 20020524 Excel XP xml stylesheet problems (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
- 4821 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS02-031 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- excel-xsl-script-execution(9399) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.guninski.com/ex%24el2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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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