CVE-2011-4940 (GCVE-0-2011-4940)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-06-27 10:00
Modified
2024-08-07 00:23
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1592-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN51176027/index.html third-party-advisory, x_refsource_JVN
http://secunia.com/advisories/51040 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/50858 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://bugs.python.org/issue11442 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54083 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2012-000063 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_JVNDB
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803500 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/51024 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
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