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.
CVE-2023-44270
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.2%, top 63% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
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- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(medium)
- EPSS
- 53.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 29, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (9)
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues/2820
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/lib/tokenize.js#L25
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/postcss/postcss/commit/58cc860b4c1707510c9cd1bc1fa30b423a9ad6c5
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/postcss/postcss/releases/tag/8.4.31
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues/2820
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/lib/tokenize.js#L25
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/postcss/postcss/commit/58cc860b4c1707510c9cd1bc1fa30b423a9ad6c5
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/postcss/postcss/releases/tag/8.4.31
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00025.html
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-44270(11)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2025:3069Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Errata Advisory for Red Hat OpenShift GitOps v1.14.3 security update
- RHSA-2025:2652Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHODF-4.18-RHEL-9 enhancement, bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2025:1866Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHODF-4.14-RHEL-9 security update
- RHSA-2025:1865Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHODF-4.15-RHEL-9 security update
- RHSA-2025:1829Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHODF-4.16-RHEL-9 security update
- RHSA-2025:1824Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHODF-4.17-RHEL-9 security update
- RHSA-2025:1249Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: updated discovery container images
- RHSA-2025:0892Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.18.0 release
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Patch Availability(11)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | openshift-gitops-1/must-gather-rhel8:v1.14.3-4 | 2025-03-20 | redhat |
| redhat | odf4/odf-multicluster-console-rhel9:v4.18.0-64 | 2025-03-11 | redhat |
| redhat | odf4/odf-multicluster-console-rhel9:v4.14.16-2 | 2025-02-26 | redhat |
| redhat | odf4/odf-multicluster-console-rhel9:v4.15.12-1 | 2025-02-26 | redhat |
| redhat | odf4/odf-multicluster-console-rhel9:v4.17.5-2 | 2025-02-25 | redhat |
| redhat | odf4/odf-multicluster-console-rhel9:v4.16.8-1 | 2025-02-25 | redhat |
| redhat | discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9:1.12.0-1 | 2025-02-10 | redhat |
| redhat | devspaces/dashboard-rhel9:3.18-10 | 2025-02-03 | redhat |
| redhat | openshift4/ose-networking-console-plugin-rhel9:v4.17.0-202501150934.p0.g0244dff.assembly.stream.el9 | 2025-01-28 | redhat |
| redhat | openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8:1.73.17-1 | 2024-12-10 | redhat |
| redhat | openshift4/nmstate-console-plugin-rhel9:v4.17.0-202411261204.p0.gbc40e56.assembly.stream.el9 | 2024-12-03 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| postcss | — | 8.4.31 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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