CVE-2006-7206

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.8)—💥 Exploit

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating a ADODB.Recordset object and making a series of calls to the NextRecordset method with a long string argument, which causes an "invalid memory access" in the SysFreeString function, a different issue than CVE-2006-3510 and CVE-2006-3899.

CVSS

Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Base score: 7.8

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 22%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 98
Score date: 10/9/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

💥 Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Microsoft Internet Explorer - Recordset Double-Free Memory (MS07-009) (3/26/2007)

Affected technologies (1)

Microsoft — Internet Explorer

CWEs

NVD-CWE-Other

References

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