CVE-2001-0712

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

30/10/2001

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

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), etc.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

7.50

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:::::::*

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CVE-2001-0712

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools