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CVE-2021-32798: PYSEC-2021-118 - The Jupyter notebook is a web-based notebook environment for interactive computing. In affected versions untrusted notebook can execute code

CVE-2021-32798 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2021-08-09

Technologies: notebook (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

The 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.

Affected products

  • PyPI notebook

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