thunderbird: firefox: An OBJECT tag type attribute overrode browser behavior on web resources without a content-type

A flaw was found in Thunderbird and Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation's Security Advisory describes the following issue: A malicious page could have used the type attribute of an OBJECT tag to override the default browser behavior when encountering a web resource served without a content-type. This...

Design/Logic Flaw

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 does not prevent rendering of non-HTML local files as HTML documents, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read arbitrary files via vectors involving JavaScript exploit code that constructs a reference to...

CVE-2002-0723

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 does not properly verify the domain of a frame within a browser window, which allows remote attackers to read client files or invoke executable objects via the Object tag, aka "Cross Domain Verification in Object Tag."...