JupyterLab: XSS due to lack of sanitization of the action attribute of an html <form>

Impact

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

Patches

Patched in the following versions: 3.1.4, 3.0.17, 2.3.2, 2.2.10, 1.2.21.

References

OWASP Page on Restricting Form Submissions

For more information

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Credit: Guillaume Jeanne from Google