CVE-2015-6938 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Jupyter Notebook

What is CVE-2015-6938?

CVE-2015-6938 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 21 Sep 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6938?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including ipython and notebook. It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Ipython Notebook, Jupyter Notebook, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6938?

Upgrade ipython to 3.2.2 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2015-6938 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6938 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6938, GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj, MGASA-2015-0372, PYSEC-2015-24, PYSEC-2015-26.