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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-IPYWIDGETS-40468
  • published19 May 2016
  • disclosed19 May 2016
  • creditBrian Granger, Matthias Bussonnier

Introduced: 19 May 2016

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-94  (opens 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.

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