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    CVE-2015-6938

    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.

    Published:Sep 21, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Sep 21, 2015
    EPSS Score:0.00861
    CVSS Score:4.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Ipython
    Product
    Notebook
    Vendor
    Jupyter
    Product
    Notebook
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse

    Exploits

    https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677edhttps://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed

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    References

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

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