Medium
node-postcss — security advisory
An issue was discovered in PostCSS before 8.4.31. The vulnerability affects linters using PostCSS to parse external untrusted CSS. An attacker can prepare CSS in such a way that it will contains parts parsed by PostCSS as a CSS comment. After processing by PostCSS, it will be included in the PostCSS output in CSS nodes (rules, properties) despite being included in a comment.
- Products
- node-postcss
- Affected versions
- 6.0.23-1, 6.0.23-3, 8.2.1+~cs5.3.23-8, 8.4.20+~cs8.0.23-1, 8.4.31+~cs8.0.26-1, 8.4.49+~cs9.2.32-1, 8.4.5+~cs7.1.51-2, 8.4.6+~cs7.3.21-1, 8.5.15+~cs9.3.34-1, 8.5.15+~cs9.3.38-1, 8.5.15+~cs9.3.39-1build1, 8.5.25+~cs10.2.23-1, 8.5.26+~cs10.2.24-1, 8.5.6+~cs9.3.28-1, 8.5.8+~cs9.3.30-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-44270
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in PostCSS before 8.4.31. The vulnerability affects linters using PostCSS to parse external untrusted CSS. An attacker can prepare CSS in such a way that it will contains parts parsed by PostCSS as a CSS comment. After processing by PostCSS, it will be included in the PostCSS output in CSS nodes (rules, properties) despite being included in a comment.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2023-44270
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node-postcss
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node-postcss
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node-postcss
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node-postcss
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Complete source record
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