CVE-2011-4940 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2011-4940

The list_directory function in Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py in SimpleHTTPServer in Python before...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

python
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5.2, 1.6, 1.6.1, 2.0.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.7, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.6, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.7.1, 2.7.2

Timeline

Official Publish: June 27th, 2012
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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