In Jupyter Notebook before 5.7.8, an open redirect can occur via an empty netloc. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10255.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - In Jupyter Notebook before 5.7.8, an open redirect can occur via an empty netloc. This issue exists     because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10255. (CVE-2019-10856)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - In Jupyter Notebook before 5.7.8, an open redirect can occur via an empty netloc. This issue exists
    because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10255. (CVE-2019-10856)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5585-1 advisory.

    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 could     possibly use this issue to perform open-redirect attack using empty netloc. (CVE-2019-10856)

    It was discovered that Jupyter Notebook incorrectly handled the inclusion of remote pages on Jupyter     server. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform cross-site script inclusion (XSSI) attacks.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9644)

    It was discovered that Jupyter Notebook incorrectly filtered certain URLs to a notebook. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to perform open-redirect attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-26215)

    It was discovered that Jupyter Notebook server access logs were not protected. An attacker having access     to the notebook server could possibly use this issue to get access to steal sensitive information such as     auth/cookies. (CVE-2022-24758)

    It was discovered that Jupyter Notebook incorrectly configured hidden files on the server. An     authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to see unwanted sensitive hidden files from the     server which may result in getting full access to the server. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS     and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-29238)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
253882	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-10856	Nessus	Misc.	medium
423269	SCA: security update for notebook (GHSA-rcx2-m7jp-p9wj)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
423269	SCA: security update for notebook (GHSA-rcx2-m7jp-p9wj)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
164506	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Jupyter Notebook vulnerabilities (USN-5585-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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