Emerald Red Team

ERT-CONFIG-004

Missing X-Content-Type-Options

LowA02:2025CWE-693

Why it matters

Security headers, TLS, email spoofing, takeovers. This check looks specifically for: missing x-content-type-options.

How to fix it

Send X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff.

How we test it

Passive — runs in the free check, looks only at what a browser can see.

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