Cross-site request forgery in the REST API in IPython 2 and 3.

A flaw was found in IPython's notebook handling:

Local folder name was used in HTML templates without escaping, allowing XSS in said pages by carefully crafting folder name and URL to access it.

Original report:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474

Upstream Patches:

3.x: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892 4.0.x: https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3 4.x: https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed

A vulnerability in IPython allowing maliciously forged file to be opened for editing that could execute javascript code, specifically by being redirected to /files/ due to the mistakenly treating the file as plain text. Versions >= 3.0 and <= 3.2.1 of IPython are affected.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/0a8096adf165e2465550bd5893d7e352544e5967

CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/558