CVE-2021-32862

Publication date 18 August 2022

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The GitHub Security Lab discovered sixteen ways to exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability in nbconvert. When using nbconvert to generate an HTML version of a user-controllable notebook, it is possible to inject arbitrary HTML which may lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities if these HTML notebooks are served by a web server (eg: nbviewer).

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nbconvert	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

ccdm94

all commits that patch this issue can be seen by comparing nbconvert version 6.5.0 and version 6.5.1. (see: https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/compare/6.5.0...6.5.1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H