CVE-2006-6223

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Search Appliance and Google Mini allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a UTF-7 encoded q parameter.

Published: 2006-12-01 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-6223 is rated Moderate Risk (47.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.03%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6223

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 2026-06-30 2.94% 3.03% +0.09%
2 2026-06-15 2.06% 2.94% +0.88%
3 2025-07-21 — 2.06% —

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6223

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-2006-6223

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6223

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-6223: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6223

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6223

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
google mini_search_appliance — cpe:2.3:h:google:mini_search_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google search_appliance — cpe:2.3:h:google:search_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6223

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