CVE-2021-32862

High

Description

The GitHub Security Lab discovered sixteen ways to exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability in nbconvert. When using nbconvert to generate an HTML version of a user-controllable notebook, it is possible to inject arbitrary HTML which may lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities if these HTML notebooks are served by a web server (eg: nbviewer).

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductJupyter Nbconvert
PublishedAug 18, 2022
First seenAug 18, 2022

How to fix

Update
  • nbconvert6.5.1, 6.3.0a0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
jupyter nbconvertv ≤ 6.2.0—
debian debian_linux10.0—
nbconvertPyPIv < 6.5.1, v < 6.3.0a06.5.1, 6.3.0a0

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