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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-10-12T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:30:06.059Z

Reserved: 2001-09-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2001-0712

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2001-10-30T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2021-07-23T12:18:04.053

Link: CVE-2001-0712

cve-icon Redhat

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