CVE-2001-0712

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, et...

CVE-2001-0712

The CVE concerns Internet Explorer’s rendering engine where MIME types are determined by the client rather than the server. This enables remote servers to coax script execution from files whose MIME type would not normally be treated as executable (e.g., .txt, .jpg). Reported impact scores indica...