Re: CVE request: IPython XSS in JSON error responses

[Kyle Kelley <rgbkrk () gmail com>]

Thank you for the rapid response!

On Monday, June 22, 2015, cve-assign () mitre org <cve-assign () mitre org> wrote:

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> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/7222bd53ad089a65fd610fab4626f9d0ab47dfce
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> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/c2078a53543ed502efd968649fee1125e0eb549c
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> > JSON error responses from the IPython notebook REST API contained
> > URL parameters and were incorrectly reported as text/html instead of
> > application/json. The error messages included some of these URL params,
> > resulting in a cross site scripting attack.
>
> (We wanted to have two CVE IDs because of the following difference in
> how 2.x and 3.x are affected. We realize that this is perhaps a
> marginal case for that, because the 3.x code is essentially just:
>
>   self.log.warn("/api/notebooks is deprecated, use /api/contents")
>   self.redirect(url_path_join(
>       self.base_url,
>       'api/contents',
>
> )
>
> > /api/contents (3.0-3.1)
>
> Use CVE-2015-4706 for the /api/contents path.
>
>
> > /api/notebooks (2.0-2.4, 3.0-3.1)
>
> Use CVE-2015-4707 for the /api/notebooks path.
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