CVE-2011-4940
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-06-27 10:00
Modified
2024-08-07 00:23
Severity ?
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://bugs.python.org/issue11442
secalert@redhat.comhttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN51176027/index.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2012-000063
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/50858
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/51024
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/51040
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54083
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1592-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803500
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