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CVE-2015-6938 Detail

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.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474 CVE, MITRE
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Patch 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed CVE, MITRE Exploit 
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-6938
NVD Published Date:
09/21/2015
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
MITRE