Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) Content-Disposition vulnerabilities

Overview Microsoft Internet Explorer IE may handle executable content automatically, opening it with another application on the client host that may, in turn, instruct the operating system to execute the file. Description IE does not properly verify the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header...

CVE-2002-0188

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields that cause the application for the spoofed file type to pass the file back to the operating system for handling rather than raise an error...

CVE-2002-0193

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields that cause the application for the spoofed file type to pass the file back to the operating system for handling rather than raise an error...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1/6.0 - Content-Disposition Handling File Execution

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4752/info An issue exists in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer handles conflicting information in some HTTP headers used to describe non-HTML content. A malicious web server may provide content with misleading values in the content-type and...

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."...