CVE-2011-4940

EPSS 0.27%

Published: 6/27/2012Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4940

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.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/python2.7from 0, < 2.7.2-8

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4940