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critical 9.3

CVE-2006-1359 in the critical feed json

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a c…

published 2006-03-23 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-1363

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
68.3%
EPSS 68.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
6
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/ms06_013_createtextrange)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

68.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/ms06_013_createtextrange MS06-013 Microsoft Internet Explorer createTextRange() Code Execution metasploit exploit, normal rank, 2006-03-19
  • EDB-16578 Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRange()' Code Execution (MS06-013) (Metasploit) remote, 2010-09-20
  • EDB-1838 Microsoft Internet Explorer - HTML Tag Memory Corruption (MS06-013) dos, 2006-05-27
  • EDB-1628 Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRang' Download Shellcode (2) remote, 2006-03-31
  • EDB-1620 Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRang' Remote (Metasploit) remote, 2006-04-01
  • EDB-1606 Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRang' Remote Code Execution remote, 2006-03-23
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17196 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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