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CVE-2001-0500

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2001-07-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Microsoft Indexing ServiceMicrosoft Index ServerMicrosoft Internet Information Server

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References