CVE-2001-0712: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only

Published 2001-10-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.