Open redirect in Jupyter Notebook

Impact

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?

Open redirect vulnerability - a maliciously crafted link to a notebook server could redirect the browser to a different website.

All notebook servers are technically affected, however, these maliciously crafted links can only be reasonably made for known notebook server hosts. A link to your notebook server may appear safe, but ultimately redirect to a spoofed server on the public internet.

Patches

Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?

Patched in notebook 6.1.5

References

OWASP page on open redirects

For more information

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Credit: zhuonan li of Alibaba Application Security Team