Information Exposure Affecting tkinter package, versions <0:2.6.6-20.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-TKINTER-2045802
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Mar 2008

Introduced: 7 Mar 2008

CVE-2011-1015  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:6 tkinter to version 0:2.6.6-20.el6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tkinter package and not the tkinter package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1