CVE-2006-0032

Windows 2000 vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

23.2%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

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 vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Windows 2000

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2006-09-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 23.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Microsoft Windows 2000 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-0032.
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