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CVE-2006-5152
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 10.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.9% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 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
- 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_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 31328 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20061002 Re: [Full-disclosure] 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
- 20061002 Re: [Full-disclosure] 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
- 20061002 Re: [Full-disclosure] 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_FULLDISCx_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-2006-5137 (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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