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AIKIDO-2025-10582

jupyter-server is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Aug 25, 2025

62

Medium Risk

This Affects:

PYTHONjupyter-server
0.0.1 - 2.16.0
Fixed in 2.17.0
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to a CORS bypass that can expose sensitive files through the /files endpoint even when proper origin restrictions (allow_origin_pat) are configured. The issue arises because the XSRF validation logic does not check the request's origin before serving files. As a result, an attacker can exploit a shared-domain XSRF cookie and craft cross-origin requests to bypass CORS protections and access restricted files. The fix adds an explicit origin check in the check_xsrf_cookie flow to ensure that only allowed origins can access /files.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

jupyter-server is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in versions 0.0.1 - 2.16.0.

How to fix this

Upgrade the jupyter-server library to the patch version.