CVE-2006-3817

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Novell GroupWise WebAccess 6.5 and 7 before 20060727 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an encoded SCRIPT element in an e-mail message with the UTF-7 character set, as demonstrated by the "+ADw-SCRIPT+AD4-" sequence.

Published: 2006-08-11 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-3817 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.91%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.25% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-3817

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-3817

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.66% 1.91% +1.25%
2 2025-09-04 0.43% 0.66% +0.23%
3 2025-03-17 — 0.43% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-3817

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-3817

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2006-3817

Solution: This vulnerability is addressed in the following product update: Novell, GroupWise WebAccess, 6.5 20060727 Novell, GroupWise WebAccess, 7 20060727

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-3817

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
novell groupwise_webaccess 6.5 cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise_webaccess:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell groupwise_webaccess 6.5 cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise_webaccess:6.5:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell groupwise_webaccess 6.5 cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise_webaccess:6.5:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell groupwise_webaccess 6.5 cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise_webaccess:6.5:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell groupwise_webaccess 6.5 cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise_webaccess:6.5:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
novell groupwise_webaccess 7 cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise_webaccess:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-3817

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