UnratedRed Hat & Ubuntu Linux

PostfixAdmin vulnerability

USN-8242-2 Published May 7, 2026

CVE-2023-28447

Affected products & platforms

Red Hat & Ubuntu LinuxUnclassified

Summary

USN-8242-1 fixed a vulnerability in CiviCRM. This update provides the corresponding fix for PostfixAdmin. Original advisory details: Takuya Aramaki discovered that Smarty, vendored in CiviCRM, did not properly escape JavaScript code. An attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct a cross-site scripting attack. Affected Ubuntu releases: 24.04. CVEs: CVE-2023-28447.

Affected versions

Ubuntu 24.04

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).

Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source

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