Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2001-0727
Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by modifying the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields in a way that causes Internet Explorer to believe that the file is safe to open without prompting the user, aka the "File Execution Vulnerability."
EPSS: 0.310 (98.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.5, 6.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (government-resource, x_refsource_CIAC, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)