Security Advisory
CVE-2014-4650
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
The CGIHTTPServer module in Python 2.7.5 and 3.3.4 does not properly handle URLs in which URL encoding is used for path separators, which allows remote attackers to read script source code or conduct directory traversal attacks and execute unintended code via a crafted character sequence, as demonstrated by a %2f separator.
Published Date
February 20, 2020
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory