Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting ipywidgets package, versions [5.0.0,5.1.5)


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-IPYWIDGETS-40468
  • published 19 May 2016
  • disclosed 19 May 2016
  • credit Brian Granger, Matthias Bussonnier

Introduced: 19 May 2016

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

ipywidgets is HTML widgets for Jupyter.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. A widget snapshotting feature was introduced in ipywidgets 5.0.0 allowed execution of javascript code upon on loading and saving of a notebook.

Note: This only affects ipywidgets in conjunction with the Jupyter Notebook.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None