Impact

Untrusted notebook can execute code on load. This is a remote code execution, but requires user action to open a notebook.

Patches

5.7.11, 6.4.1

References

OWASP Page on Injection Prevention

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Credit: Guillaume Jeanne from Google

Example:

A notebook with the following content in a cell and it would display an alert when opened for the first time in Notebook (in an untrusted state):

{ "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 0, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/html": [ "<select><iframe></select><img src=x: onerror=alert('xss')>\n"], "text/plain": [] }, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "display_data" } ], "source": [ "" ] }