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CVE-2001-0712

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.5

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200109
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200291
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3116
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200109
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200291
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3116

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