CVE-2006-5152

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a UTF-7 encoded URL that is returned in a large HTTP 404 error message without an explicit charset, a related issue to CVE-2006-0032.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0.2900

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0017.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0030.html
http://www.osvdb.org/31328
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447509/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447516/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447574/100/0/threaded
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0017.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0030.html
http://www.osvdb.org/31328
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447509/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447516/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447574/100/0/threaded

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