UnratedRed Hat & Ubuntu Linux
Smarty vulnerability
USN-8272-1 Published May 19, 2026
CVE-2023-28447
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat & Ubuntu LinuxUnclassified
Summary
Takuya Aramaki discovered that Smarty did not properly escape JavaScript code. An attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct a cross-site scripting attack. Affected Ubuntu releases: 16.04. CVEs: CVE-2023-28447.
Affected versions
- Ubuntu 16.04
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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