PT-2005-5472 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2005-4810

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 7.0 Beta3 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by sending a "text/html" HTML Content-type header in response to an XMLHttpRequest (AJAX).

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 7.0 Beta3 and earlier, consider disabling the XMLHttpRequest functionality as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4810

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4810 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/18510 · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-07/0434.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21553 · Note