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CVE-2021-32798

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in notebook

Published: Aug 9, 2021Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-79
10.0CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
2.1%
Top 20.0%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

The Jupyter notebook is a web-based notebook environment for interactive computing. In affected versions untrusted notebook can execute code on load. Jupyter Notebook uses a deprecated version of Google Caja to sanitize user inputs. A public Caja bypass can be used to trigger an XSS when a victim opens a malicious ipynb document in Jupyter Notebook. The XSS allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim computer using Jupyter APIs.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:CC:HI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected Products

jupyter
oss-projectaka jupyterlab, notebook, jupyter server
notebookOn-premWeb App
AI / ML / notebook-mlops
PyPI
package-ecosystem
notebook
OSS Libraries
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения
oss-projectaka fsf
Debian GNU/LinuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Jupyter Development Team.
oss-projectaka jupyterlab-git, binderhub
Jupyter NotebookMixed
AI / ML / notebook-mlops

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Execution
Initial Access
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References

https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/security/advisories/GHSA-hwvq-6gjx-j797
github.com
https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/79fc76e890a8ec42f73a3d009e44ef84c14ef0d5
github.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32798
nvd.nist.gov
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