CVEvulnerability
CVE-2001-0712
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2001-10-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
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 configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5.0
• microsoft internet explorer 5.0.1
• microsoft internet explorer 5.5
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200109 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200291 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3116 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200109 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200291 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3116 Exploit, Vendor Advisory