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Alpine Linux: CVE-2011-4940: Vulnerability in python < 2.6.7 may allow XSS

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2011-4940: Vulnerability in python < 2.6.7 may allow XSS

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/27/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
02/14/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-python

References

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