Download dialog spoofing using Content-Disposition header — Mozilla

Andreas Sandblad of Secunia Research demonstrated a method to spoof the download dialog for saving files by supplying a Content-Disposition header with a different extension than the extension visible in the link and download dialog. Users could be tricked into downloading a safe-looking file suc...

Microsoft Internet Explorer does not properly evaluate Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers

Overview A cross-domain scripting vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer IE evaluates Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers and checks for files in the local browser cache. This vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary script in a different...

CVE-2001-0727

Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by modifying the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields in a way that causes Internet Explorer to believe that the file is safe to open without prompting the user, aka the "File Execution Vulnerability."...