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CVE-2006-0032

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 24.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-09-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: resource_kit
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: datacenter_edition, datacenter_edition-sp1, datacenter_edition-sp1_beta_1, datacenter_edition_itanium, datacenter_edition_itanium-sp1, datacenter_edition_itanium-sp1_beta_1 (+15)
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

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

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