CVE-2023-44270

medium

Description

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.

References

https://github.com/postcss/postcss/releases/tag/8.4.31

https://github.com/postcss/postcss/commit/58cc860b4c1707510c9cd1bc1fa30b423a9ad6c5

https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/lib/tokenize.js#L25

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues/2820

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-29

Updated: 2023-10-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium