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CVE-2015-4706

medium

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IPython 3.x before 3.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving JSON error messages and the /api/contents path.

References

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/c2078a53543ed502efd968649fee1125e0eb549c

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/7222bd53ad089a65fd610fab4626f9d0ab47dfce

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235688

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75328

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/22/7

https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/whatsnew/version3.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-09-21

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00477