CVE-2020-26261

Summary

CVECVE-2020-26261
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-09 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-10 21:46:00 UTC
Descriptionjupyterhub-systemdspawner enables JupyterHub to spawn single-user notebook servers using systemd. In jupyterhub-systemdspawner before version 0.15 user API tokens issued to single-user servers are specified in the environment of systemd units. These tokens are incorrectly accessible to all users. In particular, the-littlest-jupyterhub is affected, which uses systemdspawner by default. This is patched in jupyterhub-systemdspawner v0.15

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-668

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Jupyterhub Systemdspawner All All All All
Application Jupyterhub Systemdspawner All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
jupyterhub-systemdspawner · PyPI MISC pypi.org Product, Third Party Advisory
systemdspawner/CHANGELOG.md at master · jupyterhub/systemdspawner · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
user-readable api tokens in systemd units · Advisory · jupyterhub/systemdspawner · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
Merge pull request from GHSA-cg54-gpgr-4rm6 · jupyterhub/systemdspawner@a4d08fd · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983224 Python (pip) Security Update for jupyterhub-systemdspawner (GHSA-cg54-gpgr-4rm6)
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