File Download box in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 allows an attacker to use the Content-Disposition and Content-Type HTML header fields to modify how the name of the file is displayed, which could trick a user into believing that a file is safe to download.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-0024 File Download box in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 allows an attacker to use the Content-Disposition and Content-Type HTML header fields to modify how the name of the file is displayed, which could trick a user into believing that a file is safe to download.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:35:17.386Z

Reserved: 2002-01-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-0024

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-03-08T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-0024

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