CVE-2001-0240 describes a vulnerability in Microsoft Word versions prior to Word 2002, where malicious macros could be executed automatically without user warning. This occurs when a Rich Text Format (RTF) document links to a template containing an embedded macro. The vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), indicating that an attacker requires local access and low attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. 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:word:97:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
98CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:98:*:*:*:*:mac_os_x:*:* | ||
98CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:98:*:*:ja:*:*:*:* | ||
2000CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2001CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:2001:*:*:*:*:mac_os_x:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.