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.
Exploits (1)
exploitdb
WORKING POC
VERIFIED
by Eiji James Yoshida · textremotewindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28500
References (13)
Core 13
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447509/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28651
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A535
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3564
US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert-vn
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/108884
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016826
US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-255A.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ms
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-053
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447511/100/0/threaded
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.geocities.jp/ptrs_sec/advisory09e.html
Patch vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19927
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory
x_refsource_hp
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446630/100/100/threaded
Patch, Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21861
Scores
EPSS
0.7437
EPSS Percentile
98.9%
Details
CWE
CWE-79
Status
published
Products (13)
microsoft/windows_2000
(5 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_2000
resource_kit
microsoft/windows_2003_server
datacenter_edition (3 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_2003_server
datacenter_edition_itanium (3 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_2003_server
enterprise_64-bit
microsoft/windows_2003_server
enterprise_edition sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_2003_server
enterprise_edition_itanium (3 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_2003_server
r2
microsoft/windows_2003_server
sp1
microsoft/windows_2003_server
standard (3 CPE variants)
... and 3 more
Published
Sep 12, 2006
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026