PT-2001-1826 · Microsoft · Office Word

Published 2001-08-14 · Updated 2017-10-10 · CVE-2001-0628

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Word version 2000

Description: The issue allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary macros with the user ID of the Word user, as Microsoft Word 2000 does not check AutoRecovery (.asd) files for macros.

Recommendations: For Microsoft Word 2000, consider disabling the execution of macros from AutoRecovery files as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2001-0628

Affected Products

Office Word

References · 5

• 🔥 http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q274/2/28.asp · Exploit
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/2760 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-0628 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6614 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2001-0628 · Note