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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: USN-5585-1 Critical: Jupyter Notebook Security Issues

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5586-1 identifies various vulnerabilities in Jupyter Lab that impact multiple LTS releases.
Several security issues were fixed in Jupyter Notebook.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Jupyter Notebook.

Software Description:

- jupyter-notebook: Jupyter interactive notebook

Details:

It was discovered that Jupyter Notebook incorrectly handled certain notebooks.

An attacker could possibly use this issue of lack of Content Security Policy

in Nbconvert to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on the notebook

server. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19351)

It was discovered that Jupyter Notebook incorrectly handled certain SVG

documents. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross-site

scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

(CVE-2018-21030)

It was discovered that Jupyter Notebook incorrectly filtered certain URLs on

the login page. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform

open-redirect attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

(CVE-2019-10255)

It was discovered that Jupyter Notebook had an incomplete fix for

CVE-2019-10255. An attacker c...

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical XSS remote access Ubuntu open redirect Jupyter Notebook

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  jupyter-notebook                6.4.8-1ubuntu0.1
  python3-notebook                6.4.8-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  jupyter-notebook                6.0.3-2ubuntu0.1
  python3-notebook                6.0.3-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  jupyter-notebook                5.2.2-1ubuntu0.1
  python-notebook                 5.2.2-1ubuntu0.1
  python3-notebook                5.2.2-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5585-1

CVE-2018-19351, CVE-2018-21030, CVE-2019-10255, CVE-2019-10856,

CVE-2019-9644, CVE-2020-26215, CVE-2022-24758, CVE-2022-29238

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical XSS remote access Ubuntu open redirect Jupyter Notebook

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jupyter-notebook/6.4.8-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jupyter-notebook/6.0.3-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jupyter-notebook/5.2.2-1ubuntu0.1

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