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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-1359 is rated High Exploit Risk (81.9/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 68.07%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: 6 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16578 | exploit_db | edb | 2010-09-20 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 1838 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-05-27 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 1620 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-04-01 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 1628 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-03-31 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 1606 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-03-23 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 87.60% | 68.07% | -19.53% |
| 2 | 2025-03-30 | 87.77% | 87.60% | -0.17% |
| 3 | 2025-03-29 | — | 87.77% | — |
Full EPSS history (15 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.3 | 2.0 | HIGH |
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8.6 | 10.0 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | ie | 6.0 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | ie | 6.0 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | ie | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:7.0:beta_2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 6.0 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |