Name: CVE-2015-6938: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2015-09-21T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2015-6938, CWE-79, CVSS 4.1, EPSS 0.00861

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the file browser in notebook/notebookapp.py in IPython Notebook before 3.2.2 and Jupyter Notebook 4.0.x before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a folder name. NOTE: this was originally reported as a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, but this may be inaccurate.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 4.1

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade ipython	Jul 30, 2024	Sep 21, 2015
Freebsd	—	Upgrade ipython	Dec 10, 2025	Oct 10, 2015
Suse	—	Upgrade IPython-docUpgrade IPython	Dec 18, 2015	Sep 21, 2015

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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