PSF-2012-1

Import Source

https://github.com/psf/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/python/PSF-2012-1.json

Aliases

• CVE-2011-4940

Published

2012-06-27T10:00:00Z

Modified

2023-11-08T03:57:01.998050Z

Summary

SimpleHTTPServer UTF-7

Details

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

• https://bugs.python.org/issue11442