Title: Auto-execution Of VBA code Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Similar to the Russian New Year's exploit, this vulnerability demonstrates the ability for malicious code to be executed on a web user's machine via the use of VBA code that may be executed upon opening or viewing a file.
Office97 applications may be configured to prompt the user before launching the VBA code. Unfortunately, the templates upon which Word documents are based DO NOT prompt the user upon opening VBA code.
Outlook documents in HTML code may be trojaned in a similar fashion.
IE4 and IE5 may also trigger the same VBA trojan if they are configured to automatically display Office documents form within the browser window.
Affected Products:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows 95
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 for Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 98
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Office 97
- Microsoft Outlook 98
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Word 97
- Microsoft Word 97 SR1
- Microsoft Word 97 SR2
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