National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0032

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

Successful exploitation requires that the Indexing service is accessible through IIS.}

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-255A

Name: TA06-255A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-255A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#108884

Name: VU#108884

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/108884

External Source: BID

Name: 19927

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19927

External Source: MS

Name: MS06-053

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-053.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3564

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3564

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21861

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21861

External Source: XF

Name: ms-indexing-service-xss(28651)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28651

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20061001 Microsoft Internet Information Services UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability [MS06-053]

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/447511/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20061002 IE UXSS (Universal XSS in IE, was Re: Microsoft Internet Information Services UTF-7 XSS Vulnerability [MS06-053])

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/447509/100/0/threaded

External Source: HP

Name: SSRT061187

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/446630/100/100/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.geocities.jp/ptrs_sec/advisory09e.html

Hyperlink:http://www.geocities.jp/ptrs_sec/advisory09e.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016826

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016826

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:535

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:535

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:535