CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-59842

Use of Web Link to Untrusted Target with window.opener Access

Published: Sep 26, 2025 | Modified: Sep 29, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

jupyterlab is an extensible environment for interactive and reproducible computing, based on the Jupyter Notebook Architecture. Prior to version 4.4.8, links generated with LaTeX typesetters in Markdown files and Markdown cells in JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook did not include the noopener attribute. This is deemed to have no impact on the default installations. Theoretically users of third-party LaTeX-rendering extensions could find themselves vulnerable to reverse tabnabbing attacks if links generated by those extensions included target=_blank (no such extensions are known at time of writing) and they were to click on a link generated in LaTeX (typically visibly different from other links). This issue has been patched in version 4.4.8.

Weakness

The web application produces links to untrusted external sites outside of its sphere of control, but it does not properly prevent the external site from modifying security-critical properties of the window.opener object, such as the location property.

Potential Mitigations

  • When creating a link to an external document using the tag with a defined target, for example “_blank” or a named frame, provide the rel attribute with a value “noopener noreferrer”.
  • If opening the external document in a new window via javascript, then reset the opener by setting it equal to null.
  • Do not use “_blank” targets. However, this can affect the usability of the application.

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