Medium

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Jupyter Notebook

  • Disclosed: 21.09.2015
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:20

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 software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) ipython < 3.2.2 3.2.2
Python (PyPI) notebook >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5 4.0.5

References

CVSS score 6.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
ipython, notebook
Disclosed
21.09.2015
Updated
11.10.2026 11:20

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2015-24 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2015-26 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: notebook

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (21) in the archive
Total entries
21
First → latest
09.2015 10.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 1
  • High 8
  • Medium 11
  • Low 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2017: 0
  2. 2018: 3
  3. 2019: 4
  4. 2020: 1
  5. 2021: 2
  6. 2022: 2
  7. 2023: 0
  8. 2024: 3
  9. 2025: 0
  10. 2026: 4

earlier: 2

Severity:
  1. High · 7.6 CVE-2024-43805 >= 7.0.0, < 7.2.2 7.2.2
  2. High · 7.6 CVE-2024-22421 >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.7 7.0.7
  3. High · 10.0 CVE-2021-32798 < 5.7.11, >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.1 5.7.11, 6.4.1
  4. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2015-7337 >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5 4.0.5
  5. Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Jupyter Notebook this entry
    Medium · 6.1 CVE-2015-6938 >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.5 4.0.5

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