IRCCloud · Report #6935
Missing X-Content-Type-Options
Validstatus
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.