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IRCCloud · Report #6935

Missing X-Content-Type-Options

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6upvotes
15 May 2014disclosed

How it was found

https://www.irccloud.com/#?/addNetwork doesn't have a header settings for X-Content-Type Options which means it is vulnerable to MIME sniffing. The only defined value, "nosniff", prevents Internet Explorer and Google Chrome from MIME-sniffing a response away from the declared content-type. This also applies to Google Chrome when downloading extensions. This reduces exposure to drive-by download attacks and sites serving user uploaded content that by clever naming could be treated by MSIE as executable or dynamic HTML files.

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