CVE-2001-0500

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
90.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 0% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: July 21, 2001 (9063 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft index servermicrosoft indexing servicemicrosoft internet information server

References

🔗 www.cert.org 🔗 www.ciac.org 🔗 www.iss.net 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com