CVE-2015-6938
mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.028 · 86 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–6.1
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affected products (14)
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advisories (3)
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- GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cjImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Jupyter Notebook2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
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.
- PYSEC-2015-242015-09-21vendor · osvUS
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.
- PYSEC-2015-262015-09-21vendor · osvUS
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.
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references (29)
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- http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/whatsnew/version3.htmlPatchcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.htmlcnnvd
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474cnnvd
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405cnnvd
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892cnnvd
- https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677edcnnvd
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