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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.5

CVE-2020-36191 json

Cross-Site Request Forgery in JupyterHub

published 2021-01-13 5 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-jupyterhub-2020-36191 , EUVD-2021-0106 , GHSA-7xx3-qp5w-fw96 , PYSEC-2021-67

cvss
4.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

JupyterHub 1.1.0 allows CSRF in the admin panel via a request that lacks an _xsrf field, as demonstrated by a /hub/api/user request (to add or remove a user account).

Patch / fix

  • pypi jupyterhub 1.2.0b1
  • bitnami jupyterhub 1.1.1
  • jupyterhub Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.0.0+ds1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36191

Exploit prediction

0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/issues/3304 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 4.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi jupyterhub
<1.2.0b1
1.2.0b1
bitnami jupyterhub
>=1.1.0, <1.1.1
1.1.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.