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HIGH7.1

GHSA-c3mw-737p-c7g2

Jupyter Server: 5xx request logging leaks token-bearing Referer header values

Quick fix

GHSA-c3mw-737p-c7g2 — jupyter-server: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'jupyter-server>=2.21.0'

Details

### Summary

When a request returns a 500, `jupyter_server/log.py` logs a small JSON block of request headers.

The Referer header was copied into it as-is, so a token in the Referer URL ended up in the logs in plain text.

### Impact

Anyone who can read the server logs can pick tokens out of these 500 entries. Tokens end up in the Referer during normal token-based login and launch flows.

Affected: all versions before 2.21.0.

### PoC

Any malformed request that returns a 500 works:

```bash curl -i -X POST \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Referer: http://127.0.0.1:8899/tree?token=REFERTOKEN' \ --data '{"name":123}' \ 'http://127.0.0.1:8899/api/kernels?token=VALIDTOKEN' ```

The log shows the token twice, once raw and once redacted:

``` "Referer": "http://127.0.0.1:8899/tree?token=REFERTOKEN", [E ... ServerApp] 500 POST /api/kernels?token=[secret] (...) referer=http://127.0.0.1:8899/tree?token=[secret] ```

### Patches

Fixed in 2.21.0 by 5251352. Header values are now scrubbed before the block is logged. Upgrade to 2.21.0 or later.

### Workarounds

Limit who can read the server logs. If you can, avoid flows that put the token in the URL.

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Affected packages

PyPI/jupyter-server
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.21.0
Fixpip install --upgrade 'jupyter-server>=2.21.0'

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