Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2001-0712
The rendering engine in Internet Explorer determines the MIME type independently of the type that is specified by the server, which allows remote servers to automatically execute script which is placed in a file whose MIME type does not normally support scripting, such as text (.txt), JPEG (.jpg), etc.
EPSS: 0.060 (92.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.5
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)