CVE-2001-0245

Index Server vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

14.3%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Index Server 2.0 in Windows NT 4.0, and Indexing Service in Windows 2000, allows remote attackers to read server-side include files via a malformed search request, aka a new variant of the "Malformed Hit-Highlighting" vulnerability.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Index Server

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published

2001-06-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 14.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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