CVE-2000-0088

High CVSS 7.2

Published 2000-01-20 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0088, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

Buffer overflow in the conversion utilities for Japanese, Korean and Chinese Word 5 documents allows an attacker to execute commands, aka the "Malformed Conversion Data" vulnerability.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-0088

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