National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3404

Overview

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly use the Content-Disposition HTTP header to control rendering of the HTTP response body, which allows remote attackers to read content from a different (1) domain or (2) zone via a crafted web site, aka "Content-Disposition Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: MS

Name: MS11-099

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/MS11-099

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14614

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14614

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14614

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14614