CVE-2017-3935 — Network Data Loss Prevention is vulnerable to MIME type sniffing which allows ol

Network Data Loss Prevention is vulnerable to MIME type sniffing which allows older versions of Internet Explorer to perform MIME-sniffing on the response body, potentially causing the response body to be interpreted and displayed as a content type other than the intended content

01What is this vulnerability?

Network Data Loss Prevention is vulnerable to MIME type sniffing which allows older versions of Internet Explorer to perform MIME-sniffing on the response body, potentially causing the response body to be interpreted and displayed as a content type other than the intended content type.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2017-10-31T14:29:00.417
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• kc.mcafee.com — https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10198
• kc.mcafee.com — https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10198