CVE-2001-0245: Microsoft Index Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 14.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Microsoft Index Server: version 2.0 only
• Microsoft Indexing Service: any version

Published 2001-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.