CVE-2006-0032
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Indexing Service in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003, when the Encoding option…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 24.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Indexing Service - Query Validation Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 28500remote, windowspublished 12 Sept 2006Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 24.6% · top 2.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- 20061002 IE UXSS (Universal XSS in IE, was Re: Microsoft Internet Information Services UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability [MS06-053]) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ms-indexing-service-xss(28651) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:535 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3564 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- VU#108884 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 1016826 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- TA06-255A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- MS06-053 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20061001 Microsoft Internet Information Services UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability [MS06-053] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.geocities.jp/ptrs_sec/advisory09e.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 19927 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SSRT061187 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 21861 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-0040 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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