Details
Alert Id 10021
Alert Type Passive
Status release
Risk Low
CWE 693
WASC 15
Technologies Targeted All
Tags OWASP_2017_A06
OWASP_2021_A05

Summary

The Anti-MIME-Sniffing header X-Content-Type-Options was not set to ’nosniff’. This allows older versions of Internet Explorer and Chrome 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 declared content type. Current (early 2014) and legacy versions of Firefox will use the declared content type (if one is set), rather than performing MIME-sniffing.

Solution

Ensure that the application/web server sets the Content-Type header appropriately, and that it sets the X-Content-Type-Options header to 'nosniff' for all web pages. If possible, ensure that the end user uses a standards-compliant and modern web browser that does not perform MIME-sniffing at all, or that can be directed by the web application/web server to not perform MIME-sniffing.

References

Code

org/zaproxy/zap/extension/pscanrules/XContentTypeOptionsScanRule.java