CVE-2015-5607

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5953-1

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Cross-site request forgery in the REST API in IPython 2 and 3.

Existe una vulnerabillidad de tipo Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) en IPython 2 y 3.

It was discovered that IPython incorrectly processed REST API POST requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to launch a cross-site request forgery attack and leak user's sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that IPython did not properly manage cross user temporary files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2015-07-20 CVE Reserved
2017-09-20 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2024-08-06 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CAPEC

References (6)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/21/3	2024-08-06

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243842	2017-10-05
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/1415a9710407e7c14900531813c15ba6165f0816	2017-10-05
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/commit/a05fe052a18810e92d9be8c1185952c13fe4e5b0	2017-10-05

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162671.html	2017-10-05
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162936.html	2017-10-05

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				2.0.0 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "2.0.0"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				2.1.0 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "2.1.0"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				2.2.0 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "2.2.0"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				2.3.0 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "2.3.0"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				2.3.1 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "2.3.1"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				2.4.0 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "2.4.0"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				2.4.1 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "2.4.1"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				3.0.0 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "3.0.0"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				3.1.0 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "3.1.0"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				3.2.0 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "3.2.0"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				3.2.1 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "3.2.1"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				3.2.2 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "3.2.2"		-		Affected
Ipython Search vendor "Ipython"		Ipython Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython"				3.2.3 Search vendor "Ipython" for product "Ipython" and version "3.2.3"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				21 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "21"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				22 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "22"		-		Affected