CVE-2001-0712

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 23 years ago

2001-10-30 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:24:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0

5.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1

5.0.1

Microsoft ie 5.5

5.5

References

20010727 TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20010729 Re: TXT or HTML? -- IE NEW BUG

Patch, Vendor Advisory

3116

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

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