CVE-2011-4940 (GCVE-0-2011-4940)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-27 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:23
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN51176027/index.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN
http://secunia.com/advisories/51040 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54083 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2012-000063 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDB
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803500 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/51024 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1613-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2012-06-19 00:00
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