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CVE-2002-0618

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Macro Security Model in Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute code in the Local Computer zone by embedding HTML scripts within an Excel workbook that contains an XSL stylesheet, aka "Excel XSL Stylesheet Script Execution".

Affected products

• Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1: 2000, 2000-sp2, 2000-sr1, 2002, 2002-sp1
• Microsoft Office: 2000, xp

References

• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=102256054320377&w=2
• http://www.guninski.com/ex%24el2.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9399.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4821
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-031
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=102256054320377&w=2
• http://www.guninski.com/ex%24el2.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9399.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4821
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-031

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