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PYSEC-2014-21

Details

IPython Notebook 0.12 through 1.x before 1.2 does not validate the origin of websocket requests, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging knowledge of the kernel id and a crafted page.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

PyPI / ipython

Introduced in: 0.12 Fixed in: 1.2.0

Fix pip install --upgrade 'ipython>=1.2.0'

References

http://lambdaops.com/cross-origin-websocket-hijacking-of-ipython [WEB]
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ipython.devel/13198 [WEB]
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/152 [WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119890 [REPORT]
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/4845 [WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00039.html [WEB]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:160 [ADVISORY]
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0320.html [ADVISORY]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94497 [WEB]