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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in IPython

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

pip ipython (pip)

Affected versions

>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.0

Patched versions

3.2.0

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IPython 3.x before 3.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving JSON error messages and the /api/contents path.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 21, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jul 6, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2015-4706

GHSA ID

GHSA-q326-jhw3-699g

Source code

No known source code
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