A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Jupyter Notebook up to 5.7.6. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Login Page. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a redirect vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-601. A web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a Redirect. This simplifies phishing attacks. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An Open Redirect vulnerability for all browsers in Jupyter Notebook before 5.7.7 and some browsers (Chrome, Firefox) in JupyterHub before 0.9.5 allows crafted links to the login page, which will redirect to a malicious site after successful login. Servers running on a base_url prefix are not affected.

The bug was discovered 03/28/2019. The weakness was released 03/28/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared at lists.fedoraproject.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-10255 since 03/28/2019. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1204.001 for this issue.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 277811 (Fedora Security Update for python-notebook (FEDORA-2019-9e67979b2a)).

Upgrading to version 5.7.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 131581.

Productinfo

Vendor

• Jupyter

Name

• Notebook

Version

• 5.7.0
• 5.7.1
• 5.7.2
• 5.7.3
• 5.7.4
• 5.7.5
• 5.7.6

License

• open-source

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

Discussion