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Open redirect vulnerability

Moderate
kevin-bates published GHSA-c7vm-f5p4-8fqh Nov 18, 2020

Package

notebook (pypi)

Affected versions

<= 6.1.4

Patched versions

6.1.5

Description

localhost

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

Open redirect vulnerability - a maliciously crafted link to a notebook server could redirect the browser to a different website.

All notebook servers are technically affected, however, these maliciously crafted links can only be reasonably made for known notebook server hosts. A link to your notebook server may appear safe, but ultimately redirect to a spoofed server on the public internet.

Patches

Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?

Patched in notebook 6.1.5

References

OWASP page on open redirects

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, or vulnerabilities to report, please email our security list security@ipython.org.

Credit: zhuonan li of Alibaba Application Security Team

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2020-26215

Weaknesses

No CWEs