CVE-2011-4940

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 4
Modified
Published: 27 Jun 2012, 10:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 00:23

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
10/100
CVSS Score
2.6 LOW
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.27% LOW
0% probability +0.04%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

27 Jun 2012, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 00:23
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•LOW•Score: 2.6AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.27%• Percentile: 51%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-79•Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

    The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

Affected Systems

  • python•python

    ≤ 2.5.6 | 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 | 2.7.1:rc1 | 2.7.2:rc1

References (12)