CVE-2006-1359 EXPLOIT
9.3
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 68.3% (pctl 99)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.3 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
| EPSS | 68.34% — more likely to be exploited than 99% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-94 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2006-03-23 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| microsoft | ie |
| microsoft | internet explorer |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRange()' Code Execution (MS06-013) (Metasploit) | 2010-09-20 |
| exploit-db | Microsoft Internet Explorer - HTML Tag Memory Corruption (MS06-013) | 2006-05-27 |
| exploit-db | Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRang' Remote (Metasploit) | 2006-04-01 |
| exploit-db | Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRang' Download Shellcode (2) | 2006-03-31 |
| exploit-db | Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'createTextRang' Remote Code Execution | 2006-03-23 |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1427.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1430.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1434.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1662.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18680
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-7/advisory/
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015812
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/q-154.shtml
- http://www.computerterrorism.com/research/ct22-03-2006
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/876678
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/917077.mspx
- http://www.osvdb.org/24050
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428441
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428583/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428600/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/429088/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/429124/30/6120/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17196
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-101A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1050
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