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SCA: security update for notebook (GHSA-hwvq-6gjx-j797)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416003

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2021-32798)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hwvq-6gjx-j797

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416003

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.09

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-32798

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Threat Score: 6.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-32798