CVE-2006-1359

highpriority · attend · 71EPSS 0.683 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

6 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

68.3% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-94USprimary

exploits (6)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-1606Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRang' Remote Code Executionfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-1620Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRang' Remote (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
EDB-1628Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRang' Download Shellcode (2)functional · exploit_db
EDB-16578Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRange()' Code Execution (MS06-013) (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
EDB-1838Microsoft Internet Explorer - HTML Tag Memory Corruption (MS06-013)functional · exploit_db
exploit/windows/browser/ms06_013_createtextrangeMS06-013 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange() Code Executionfunctional · metasploit

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft ie= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft ie= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet explorer= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2006-03-23modified 2026-06-16

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references (56)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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