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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD10.0 Critical

CVE-2021-32798

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in notebook

Description

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

jupyter notebook

  • >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.1affected
  • < 5.7.11affected

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