CVE-2006-0032: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 24.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version; version resource_kit only
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version datacenter_edition only; version datacenter_edition_itanium only; version enterprise_64-bit only; version enterprise_edition only; version enterprise_edition_itanium only; version r2 only; …
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2006-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.