THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-7192
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2006-7192

.Net Framework vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
22.8%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Microsoft ASP .NET Framework 2.0.50727.42 does not properly handle comment (/* */) enclosures, which allows remote attackers to bypass request filtering and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, or cause a denial of service, as demonstrated via an xss:expression STYLE attribute in a closing XSS HTML tag.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
.Net Framework
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published
2007-04-10

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 22.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Microsoft .Net Framework is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-7192.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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