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Title: Microsoft Excel Password Protected Spreadsheets Bypass Macro Protection Vulnerability

Severity: LOW

Description:

Macro Virus Protection is a feature of Microsoft Excel that is supposed warns you when you are about to open a document containing macros. A vulnerability in Excel makes it not warn you about macros when the document you are about to open is password protected. This can be used by a macro virus to spread in password protected documents.

Affected Products:

  • Microsoft Excel 97 0.0.0
  • Microsoft Excel 97 0.0.0SR1
  • Microsoft Excel 97 0.0.0SR2
  • Microsoft Excel 98 for Mac 0.0.0
  • Microsoft Office 97 0.0.0

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