CVE-2021-32798

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-32798
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-09 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-17 17:08:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Jupyter notebook is a web-based notebook environment for interactive computing. In affected versions untrusted notebook can execute code on load. Jupyter Notebook uses a deprecated version of Google Caja to sanitize user inputs. A public Caja bypass can be used to trigger an XSS when a victim opens a malicious ipynb document in Jupyter Notebook. The XSS allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim computer using Jupyter APIs.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Jupyter Notebook All All All All
Application Jupyter Notebook 6.4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in notebook · Advisory · jupyter/notebook · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Merge pull request from GHSA-hwvq-6gjx-j797 · jupyter/notebook@79fc76e · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 184959 Debian Security Update for jupyter-notebook (CVE-2021-32798)
  • 375950 Jupyter Notebook Special Element Injection Vulnerability
  • 981557 Python (pip) Security Update for notebook (GHSA-hwvq-6gjx-j797)
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