CVE-2000-0788 describes a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Word's Mail Merge tool, which fails to prompt users before executing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripts embedded in an Access database. This oversight allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a victim's system. With a CVSS score of 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with no authentication, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity and FAUCET Risk Score of 90/100, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
2000CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:access:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2000CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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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.