security flaw

The SimpleXMLRPCServer library module in Python 2.2, 2.3 before 2.3.5, and 2.4, when used by XML-RPC servers that use the registerinstance method to register an object without a dispatch method, allows remote attackers to read or modify globals of the associated module, and possibly execute...

Python: Arbitrary code execution through SimpleXMLRPCServer

Background Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. Description Graham Dumpleton discovered that XML-RPC servers making use of the SimpleXMLRPCServer library that use the registerinstance method to register an object without a dispatch method ar...