CVE-2002-0269

Internet Explorer 5.x and 6 - Cross-Site Scripting via MIME Content-Type Misinterpretation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101363764421623&w=2

Scores

EPSS 0.1147
EPSS Percentile 95.6%

Details

Status published
Products (5)
microsoft/internet_explorer 5.0
microsoft/internet_explorer 5.0.1 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/internet_explorer 5.01
microsoft/internet_explorer 5.5 (3 CPE variants)
microsoft/internet_explorer 6.0
Published May 29, 2002
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026