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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:44:10 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Was a CVE ever assigned for Python SimpleHTTPServer.py XSS?
I'm not sure if a CVE was ever assigned to this or not; it's an older
issue that's fixed in 2.5.x and 2.6.x (I suspect 2.7.x is fixed too, but
I cannot find a commit to be 100% sure). It sounds awfully familiar
though.
A flaw was reported in Python's SimpleHTTPServer's list_directory()
function. Due to a missing charset parameter, if a user were to connect
to SimpleHTTPServer using IE7, which engages in encoding-sniffing and
can be tricked into interpretting the output as UTF7. Because of this,
an attacker could hide <script> tags in UTF7-encoded characters which do
not get quoted by cgi.encode(), allowing XSS attacks.
This has been corrected upstream in version 2.6.7rc2 and 2.5.6c1. It
may be fixed in 2.7 as well, but I was unable to find a commit to match
it against.
References:
http://bugs.python.org/issue11442
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py?r1=66717&r2=88831&view=patch
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release25-maint/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py?r1=53148&r2=88815&view=patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803500
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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team
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