CVE-2011-1015

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-05-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The is_cgi method in CGIHTTPServer.py in the CGIHTTPServer module in Python 2.5, 2.6, and 3.0 allows remote attackers to read script source code via an HTTP GET request that lacks a / (slash) character at the beginning of the URI.

Affected products

Python: 3.0

References

http://bugs.python.org/issue2254
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c6c4398293bd/
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/23/27
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/24/10
http://secunia.com/advisories/50858
http://secunia.com/advisories/51024
http://secunia.com/advisories/51040
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025489
http://svn.python.org/view?view=revision&revision=71303
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:096
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46541
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1596-1

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