{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2011-03-08T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "python: potential XSS in SimpleHTTPServer's list_directory()",
    "id" : "803500",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803500"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.6",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-79",
  "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2012-06-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0745",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "python-0:2.4.3-46.el5_8.2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2012-06-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0744",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "python-0:2.6.6-29.el6_2.2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "python",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4940\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4940" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-4940",
  "csaw" : false
}