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ubuntu-cve-2025-53000

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2025-12-17 21:16

Modified

2026-05-20 15:22

Summary

Details

The nbconvert tool, jupyter nbconvert, converts Jupyter notebooks to various other formats via Jinja templates. Versions of nbconvert up to and including 7.16.6 on Windows have a vulnerability in which converting a notebook containing SVG output to a PDF results in unauthorized code execution. Specifically, a third party can create a inkscape.bat file that defines a Windows batch script, capable of arbitrary code execution. When a user runs jupyter nbconvert --to pdf on a notebook containing SVG output to a PDF on a Windows platform from this directory, the inkscape.bat file is run unexpectedly. This issue has been patched in version 7.17.0.

Severity

8.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-53000	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53000	REPORT
	https://www.imperva.com/blog/code-execution-in-ju…	REPORT

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CVE-2025-53000 (GCVE-0-2025-53000)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-17 20:27 – Updated: 2026-02-18 18:36

Title

nbconvert has an uncontrolled search path that leads to unauthorized code execution on Windows

Summary

The nbconvert tool, jupyter nbconvert, converts Jupyter notebooks to various other formats via Jinja templates. Versions of nbconvert up to and including 7.16.6 on Windows have a vulnerability in which converting a notebook containing SVG output to a PDF results in unauthorized code execution. Specifically, a third party can create a `inkscape.bat` file that defines a Windows batch script, capable of arbitrary code execution. When a user runs `jupyter nbconvert --to pdf` on a notebook containing SVG output to a PDF on a Windows platform from this directory, the `inkscape.bat` file is run unexpectedly. This issue has been patched in version 7.17.0.

Severity

8.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-12-17 20:43 UTC

CWE

CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/issues/2258	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/commit/c9ac1…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/blob/4f61702…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/releases/tag…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.imperva.com/blog/code-execution-in-ju…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
jupyter	nbconvert	Affected: < 7.17.0

Show details on NVD website

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