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."...