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Vulnerability details: VCID-mfat-hqu7-w3e2
Vulnerability ID VCID-mfat-hqu7-w3e2
Aliases CVE-2015-6938
GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj
PYSEC-2015-24
PYSEC-2015-26
Summary Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the file browser in notebook/notebookapp.py in IPython Notebook before 3.2.2 and Jupyter Notebook 4.0.x before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a folder name. NOTE: this was originally reported as a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, but this may be inaccurate.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 6.1 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html
cvssv4 5.3 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html
generic_textual MODERATE http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html
cvssv3.1 6.1 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html
cvssv4 5.3 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html
generic_textual MODERATE http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html
cvssv3.1 6.1 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html
cvssv4 5.3 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html
generic_textual MODERATE http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html
cvssv3.1 6.1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html
cvssv4 5.3 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html
generic_textual MODERATE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html
epss 0.00861 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-6938
epss 0.00861 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-6938
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405
cvssv4 5.3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405
generic_textual MODERATE https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405
cvssv3.1 6.1 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
cvssv4 5.3 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
generic_textual MODERATE http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
cvssv3.1 6.1 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544
cvssv4 5.3 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544
generic_textual MODERATE http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj
cvssv4 5.3 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892
cvssv4 5.3 https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed
cvssv4 5.3 https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3
cvssv4 5.3 https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ipython/PYSEC-2015-24.yaml
cvssv4 5.3 https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ipython/PYSEC-2015-24.yaml
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ipython/PYSEC-2015-24.yaml
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/notebook/PYSEC-2015-26.yaml
cvssv4 5.3 https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/notebook/PYSEC-2015-26.yaml
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/notebook/PYSEC-2015-26.yaml
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6938
cvssv4 5.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6938
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6938
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html
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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 Found at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166460.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html
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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 Found at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166471.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html
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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 Found at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167670.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html
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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 Found at http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-10/msg00016.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405
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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 Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259405
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
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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 Found at http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/474
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544
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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 Found at http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/544
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj
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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 Found at https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4vwq-x64q-j4cj
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892
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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 Found at https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/3ab41641cf6fce3860c73d5cf4645aa12e1e5892
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed
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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 Found at https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/35f32dd2da804d108a3a3585b69ec3295b2677ed
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3
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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 Found at https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/commit/dd9876381f0ef09873d8c5f6f2063269172331e3
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ipython/PYSEC-2015-24.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/notebook/PYSEC-2015-26.yaml
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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 Found at https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/notebook/PYSEC-2015-26.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6938
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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 Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6938
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Attack Requirements (AT) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC) Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI) Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA) Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC) Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI) Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA)

network

adjacent

local

physical

low

high

none

present

none

low

high

none

passive

active

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.75497
EPSS Score 0.00861
Published At June 11, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-11T20:25:30.024701+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.6.0