PT-2015-7414 · Project Jupyter · Ipython Notebook+1

Juan Broullón · Published 2015-09-15 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2015-6938

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IPython Notebook versions prior to 3.2.2 Jupyter Notebook versions 4.0.x prior to 4.0.5

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the file browser component of the notebook application, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a folder name.

Recommendations For IPython Notebook versions prior to 3.2.2, update to version 3.2.2 or later to resolve the issue. For Jupyter Notebook versions 4.0.x prior to 4.0.5, update to version 4.0.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-6938

GHSA-4VWQ-X64Q-J4CJ

MGASA-2015-0372

PYSEC-2015-24

PYSEC-2015-26

Affected Products

Ipython Notebook

Jupyter Notebook

References · 27

• 🔥 https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed · Exploit
• https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0372 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6938 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6938 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2015-26 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-6938 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2015-24 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0372.html · Security Note