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Security Vulnerability: X-Content-Type-Options Header Missing #32

Open chloe-blankers opened 2 years ago

chloe-blankers commented 2 years ago

Desc: 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

Risk: Low

Sol: 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

isabellarojasg commented 2 years ago

This vulnerability is being fixed in the following pr:

https://github.com/SENG426-Team/vega-web/pull/59