CVE-2000-0788
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2002-03-09 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:28
Severity ?
Summary
The Mail Merge tool in Microsoft Word does not prompt the user before executing Visual Basic (VBA) scripts in an Access database, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.
Impacted products
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