First published: Fri May 03 2002(Updated: )
Internet Explorer 5.x and 6 interprets an object as an HTML document even when its MIME Content-Type is text/plain, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in documents that the user does not expect, possibly through web applications that use a text/plain type to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Microsoft Internet Explorer | =5.01 | |
Microsoft Internet Explorer | =5.5-sp2 | |
Microsoft Internet Explorer | =5.0 | |
Microsoft Internet Explorer | =5.0.1-sp2 | |
Microsoft Internet Explorer | =5.0.1-sp1 | |
Microsoft Internet Explorer | =5.5 | |
Microsoft Internet Explorer | =5.5-sp1 | |
Microsoft Internet Explorer | =6.0 |
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