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CVE-2001-0500

N/A

Published: March 9, 2002 at 05:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:54 PM UTC

3 products affected across 1 vendorInternet Information ServerIndex ServerIndexing Service

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 97%

Description

Buffer overflow in ISAPI extension (idq.dll) in Index Server 2.0 and Indexing Service 2000 in IIS 6.0 beta and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long argument to Internet Data Administration (.ida) and Internet Data Query (.idq) files such as default.ida, as commonly exploited by Code Red.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Index Server · Microsoft

95%

Indexing Service · Microsoft

95%

All versions

Internet Information Server · Microsoft

95%

v ≤ 6.0beta

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (7)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERTExploitPatchUS Government Resource

Source: [email protected]

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-13.html

Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resourcex_refsource_CIAC

Source: [email protected]

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-098.shtml

VDB Entryx_refsource_XF

Source: [email protected]

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6705.php

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/191873

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2880

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MS

Source: [email protected]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-033

VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL

Source: [email protected]

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A197

CVSS

10HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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