CVE-2011-4940
CVE-2011-4940
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The list_directory function in Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py in SimpleHTTPServer in Python before 2.5.6c1, 2.6.x before 2.6.7 rc2, and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 does not place a charset parameter in the Content-Type HTTP header, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks against Internet Explorer 7 via UTF-7 encoding.
EPSS 3.2% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
Original sources
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1592-1
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN51176027/index.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51040
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50858
- http://bugs.python.org/issue11442
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54083
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2012-000063
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803500
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51024
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4940