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CVE-2006-0799

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0799 describes a phishing vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Remote attackers can spoof legitimate URLs in the status bar by manipulating anchor elements, form actions, and submit buttons on a webpage. This allows for deceptive phishing attacks, with a CVSS score of 4.0 indicating a medium severity due to high attack complexity and partial impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0.2900CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0.2900:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0773 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/17938
osvdb.org / 23609
securityfocus.com / archive/1/425298/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/425386/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/425883/100/0/threaded