Security Advisory

CVE-2011-4940

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-06-27 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 00:23:39

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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