PSF-2013-3

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    PSF-2013-3

    Published: 29 Oct 2013Last Modified: 9 Oct 2025

    Summary: CGI directory traversal (URL parsing)

    Details: An error in separating the path and filename of the CGI script to run in ``http.server.CGIHTTPRequestHandler`` allows running arbitrary executables in the directory under which the server was started.

    References: https://bugs.python.org/issue19435

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -04e9de40f380b2695f955d68f2721d57cecbf858

    Affected versions

    v0.9.8
    v0.9.9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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