CVE-1999-1397: Microsoft Index Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 11.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Index Server 2.0 on IIS 4.0 stores physical path information in the ContentIndex\Catalogs subkey of the AllowedPaths registry key, whose permissions allows local and remote users to obtain the physical paths of directories that are being indexed.

Affected products

• Microsoft Index Server: version 2.0 only

Published 1999-03-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.