UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8768

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8768

    Published: 18 Mar 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-8768
    Aliases:
    USN-4855-1

    Summary:

    Details: In Jupyter Notebook before 5.4.1, a maliciously forged notebook file can bypass sanitization to execute JavaScript in the notebook context. Specifically, invalid HTML is 'fixed' by jQuery after sanitization, making it dangerous.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8768, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/15/2, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/15/2, https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/4e79ebb49acac722b37b03f1fe811e67590d3831, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4855-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8768

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ipython

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.4.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

    Affected versions

    2.3.0-2ubuntu1
    2.3.0-2ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High