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CVE-2021-32798 High

Special Element Injection in notebook

### Impact Untrusted notebook can execute code on load. This is a remote code execution, but requires user action to open a notebook. ### Patches 5.7.11, 6.4.1 ### References [OWASP Page on Injection Prevention](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Injection_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html#injection-prevention-rules) ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, or vulnerabilities to report, please email our security list [email protected]. Credit: Guillaume Jeanne from Google ### Example: A notebook with the following content in a cell and it would display an alert when opened for the first time in Notebook (in an untrusted state): ``` { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 0, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/html": [ "<select><iframe></select><img src=x: onerror=alert('xss')>\n"], "text/plain": [] }, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "display_data" } ], "source": [ "" ] } ````

Exploit probability 2.1%
Published August 23, 2021
Required by Not available
Last source change March 13, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

118 explicit affected versions

PyPI notebook

69 explicit affected versions

Bitnami jupyter-base-notebook
Bitnami jupyter-notebook
PyPI notebook

10 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-hwvq-6gjx-j797

### Impact Untrusted notebook can execute code on load. This is a remote code execution, but requires user action to open a notebook. ### Patches 5.7.11, 6.4.1 ### References [OWASP Page on Injection Prevention](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Injection_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html#injection-prevention-rules) ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, or vulnerabilities to report, please email our security list [email protected]. Credit: Guillaume Jeanne from Google ### Example: A notebook with the following content in a cell and it would display an alert when opened for the first time in Notebook (in an untrusted state): ``` { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 0, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/html": [ "<select><iframe></select><img src=x: onerror=alert('xss')>\n"], "text/plain": [] }, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "display_data" } ], "source": [ "" ] } ````

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-jupyter-base-notebook-2021-32798

The Jupyter notebook is a web-based notebook environment for interactive computing. In affected versions untrusted notebook can execute code on load. Jupyter Notebook uses a deprecated version of Google Caja to sanitize user inputs. A public Caja bypass can be used to trigger an XSS when a victim opens a malicious ipynb document in Jupyter Notebook. The XSS allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim computer using Jupyter APIs.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-jupyter-notebook-2021-32798

The Jupyter notebook is a web-based notebook environment for interactive computing. In affected versions untrusted notebook can execute code on load. Jupyter Notebook uses a deprecated version of Google Caja to sanitize user inputs. A public Caja bypass can be used to trigger an XSS when a victim opens a malicious ipynb document in Jupyter Notebook. The XSS allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim computer using Jupyter APIs.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities PYSEC-2021-118

The Jupyter notebook is a web-based notebook environment for interactive computing. In affected versions untrusted notebook can execute code on load. Jupyter Notebook uses a deprecated version of Google Caja to sanitize user inputs. A public Caja bypass can be used to trigger an XSS when a victim opens a malicious ipynb document in Jupyter Notebook. The XSS allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim computer using Jupyter APIs.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-32798

The Jupyter notebook is a web-based notebook environment for interactive computing. In affected versions untrusted notebook can execute code on load. Jupyter Notebook uses a deprecated version of Google Caja to sanitize user inputs. A public Caja bypass can be used to trigger an XSS when a victim opens a malicious ipynb document in Jupyter Notebook. The XSS allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim computer using Jupyter APIs.

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05 / REFERENCES

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