CVE-2015-6938

Advisory

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the file browser in notebook/notebookapp.py in IPython Notebook before 3.2.2 and Jupyter Notebook 4.0.x before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a folder name. NOTE: this was originally reported as a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, but this may be inaccurate.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the file browser in notebook/notebookapp.py in IPython Notebook before 3.2.2 and Jupyter Notebook 4.0.x before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a folder name. NOTE: this was originally reported as a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, but this may be inaccurate.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6938
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
• https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544
• https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html
• https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html