GHSA-q326-jhw3-699g

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in IPython

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2015-4706

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	ipython	>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.0	3.2.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4706 advisory
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/7222bd53ad089a65fd610fab4626f9d0ab47dfce web
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/c2078a53543ed502efd968649fee1125e0eb549c web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235688 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q326-jhw3-699g advisory
https://github.com/ipython/ipython package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ipython/PYSEC-2017-45.yaml web
https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/whatsnew/version3.html web
https://web.archive.org/web/20200516112656/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75328 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/22/7 web