CVE-2006-0032 EXPLOIT
4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 24.6% (pctl 98)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Indexing Service in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003, when the Encoding option is set to Auto Select, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a UTF-7 encoded URL, which is injected into an error message whose charset is set to UTF-7.
Scoring
| CVSS | 4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| EPSS | 24.57% — more likely to be exploited than 98% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-79 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2006-09-12 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| microsoft | windows 2000 |
| microsoft | windows 2003 server |
| microsoft | windows xp |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Microsoft Indexing Service - Query Validation Cross-Site Scripting | 2006-09-12 |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21861
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016826
- http://www.geocities.jp/ptrs_sec/advisory09e.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/108884
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446630/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447509/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447511/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19927
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-255A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3564
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-053
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28651
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A535
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21861
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016826
- http://www.geocities.jp/ptrs_sec/advisory09e.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/108884
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446630/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447509/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447511/100/0/threaded
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