CVE-2000-0088 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Office conversion utilities for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Word 5 documents, affecting products like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. This flaw, dubbed "Malformed Conversion Data," allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), it requires local access but offers complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
97CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:97:*:*:ja:*:*:*:* | ||
97CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:97:*:*:ko:*:*:*:* | ||
97CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:97:*:*:zh:*:*:*:* | ||
2000CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:*:*:ja:*:*:*:* | ||
2000CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:*:*:ko:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.