PSF-2012-1

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    PSF-2012-1

    Published: 27 Jun 2012Last Modified: 9 Oct 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2011-4940

    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

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3853586e0caa0d5c4342ac8bd7e78cb5766fa8cc

    Affected versions

    v0.9.8
    v0.9.9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High