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Debian: CVE-2021-32862: nbconvert -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-32862: nbconvert -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/18/2022
Created
06/05/2023
Added
06/05/2023
Modified
06/05/2023

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).

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-nbconvert

References

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