CVE-2008-4930

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 4, 2008
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Nov 4, 2008

Description

MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.4.2 does not properly handle an uploaded file with a nonstandard file type that contains HTML sequences, which allows remote attackers to cause that file to be processed as HTML by Internet Explorer's content inspection, aka "Incomplete protection against MIME-sniffing." NOTE: this could be leveraged for XSS and other attacks.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20081027 MyBB 1.4.2: Multiple Vulnerabiltiesmailing-list
20081027 MyBB 1.4.2: Multiple Vulnerabiltiesmailing-list
[oss-security] 20081101 CVE request (Fwd: MyBB 1.4.2: Multiple Vulnerabilties)mailing-list

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