CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-0712

Published: Oct 30, 2001 | Modified: Jul 23, 2021
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.0.1 (including) 5.0.1 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.5 (including) 5.5 (including)

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