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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2006-0032 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Indexing Service in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003, when the Encoding option i…

published 2006-09-12 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-0040

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
24.6%
EPSS 24.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-28500)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

24.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-28500 Microsoft Indexing Service - Query Validation Cross-Site Scripting remote, 2006-09-12

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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