CVE-2015-6938

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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 products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22, 23
ipython Notebook: through 3.2.1
jupyter notebook: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html

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