Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting ipywidgets package, versions [5.0.0,5.1.5)
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- published 19 May 2016
- disclosed 19 May 2016
- credit Brian Granger, Matthias Bussonnier
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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