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Bumps postcss from 8.5.12 to 8.5.23.

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8.5.23

  • Do not load source map without opts.from for security reasons.

8.5.22

8.5.21

8.5.20

8.5.19

  • Fixed cleaning before for new nodes inserted to Root (by @​MahinAnowar).

8.5.18

  • Restricted loading previous source maps file to the opts.from folder for security reasons (use unsafeMap: true to disable the check).

8.5.17

  • Fixed Maximum call stack size exceeded error.
  • Fixed Prototype hijacking for postcss.fromJSON().
  • Fixed Input#origin() for unmapped end position (by @​chatman-media).

8.5.16

8.5.15

  • Fixed declaration parsing performance (by @​homanp).

8.5.14

8.5.13

  • Fixed postcss-scss commend regression.
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8.5.23

  • Do not load source map without opts.from for security reasons.

8.5.22

8.5.21

8.5.20

8.5.19

  • Fixed cleaning before for new nodes inserted to Root (by @​MahinAnowar).

8.5.18

  • Restricted loading previous source maps file to the opts.from folder for security reasons (use unsafeMap: true to disable the check).

8.5.17

  • Fixed Maximum call stack size exceeded error.
  • Fixed Prototype hijacking for postcss.fromJSON().
  • Fixed Input#origin() for unmapped end position (by @​chatman-media).

8.5.16

8.5.15

  • Fixed declaration parsing performance (by @​homanp).

8.5.14

8.5.13

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BLEnder: will not auto-merge (CI has 2 pending check(s)).

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BLEnder investigated: This dependency has an open security alert, but the repo is not affected.

postcss is used in the FxA monorepo purely as a build-time CSS toolchain (tailwindcss, autoprefixer, postcss-loader/cli, postcss-preset-env, Next.js/storybook/webpack). There are no direct imports of the postcss API in application or library source, and the app never parses user-submitted CSS at runtime nor re-stringifies postcss output into HTML <style> tags — the exact prerequisites for this XSS advisory. The two direct declarations (root 8.5.12, fxa-settings ^8.5.12 -> 8.5.14) are already at or above the patched 8.5.10; only stale transitive build-time resolutions (e.g. 8.5.6, 8.4.31, 7.x, 6.x) remain in the vulnerable range, and those never touch untrusted CSS at runtime. Therefore the repository's code is not affected.

This PR can be reviewed and merged as a normal dependency update.

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BLEnder investigated: This dependency has an open security alert, but the repo is not affected.

postcss 8.5.12 is installed (within the vulnerable <=8.5.17 range), but it is used exclusively as build-time CSS tooling — Tailwind, autoprefixer, webpack postcss-loader, Next.js, and Storybook — operating only on the project's own first-party stylesheets. No first-party source imports postcss to call .process()/.parse() on untrusted, user-submitted CSS at runtime, which is the necessary precondition for this sourceMappingURL path-traversal disclosure. The vulnerable code path (attacker-controlled CSS -> auto-loaded previous source map -> disclosed sourcesContent in result.map) is never exercised, so there is no exploitable runtime impact.

This PR can be reviewed and merged as a normal dependency update.

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BLEnder investigated: This dependency has an open security alert, but the repo is not affected.

postcss is used only as build-time CSS tooling (Tailwind, webpack/postcss-loader, Next.js) operating on static, repo-controlled stylesheets. No FxA source code imports postcss directly or calls postcss().process() on attacker-controlled/untrusted CSS, so the vulnerable PreviousMap sourceMappingURL file-read path is never triggered. The direct declarations are already at the patched 8.5.12/8.5.14; some transitive copies still resolve to vulnerable 8.5.6/8.4.31 in yarn.lock, but they run only at build time against trusted input, giving no runtime attack surface.

This PR can be reviewed and merged as a normal dependency update.

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BLEnder investigated: This dependency has an open security alert, but the repo is not affected.

postcss is present only as a build-time devDependency (root package.json and fxa-settings) used by the Tailwind/autoprefixer/webpack/Next.js CSS toolchain via standard postcss.config.js plugin pipelines. The vulnerable path (postcss.parse()/process() on untrusted CSS at runtime with source-map auto-loading) is never exercised: a repo-wide grep found zero runtime imports or calls to postcss in application source, and PostCSS only processes the repo's own trusted first-party CSS at build time. Installed versions (8.5.6/8.5.12/8.5.14/8.5.16) fall in the vulnerable <=8.5.17 range, so scanners will flag it, but there is no attacker-controlled-CSS code path, making it non-exploitable.

This PR can be reviewed and merged as a normal dependency update.

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BLEnder investigated: This dependency has an open security alert, but the repo is not affected.

postcss is used exclusively as build-time tooling in fxa (tailwindcss, autoprefixer, stylelint, postcss-loader/cli, storybook/webpack). The direct root devDependency is pinned to 8.5.12 and fxa-settings resolves 8.5.14 — both already patched. The advisory's XSS requires parsing user-submitted CSS, re-stringifying it, and embedding the output in an HTML <style> tag at runtime (plus a malicious plugin); no such runtime code path exists here. All CSS processed is static, first-party, developer-authored stylesheets compiled to static .out.css. Some transitive copies below 8.5.10 exist in yarn.lock (e.g. 8.5.6 via the tailwind chain, plus legacy 6.x/7.x/8.4.31), but they are only exercised during builds on trusted input, so the vulnerable path is not reachable.

This PR can be reviewed and merged as a normal dependency update.

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BLEnder investigated: This dependency has an open security alert, but the repo is not affected.

postcss is a build-time-only dependency in the fxa monorepo (Tailwind/PostCSS CLI, postcss-loader, Next.js PostCSS pipeline), used exclusively to compile first-party stylesheets during CI/build. The vulnerability requires attacker-controlled CSS to be passed to postcss().process(); no such runtime call on untrusted input exists anywhere in the codebase. The two direct declarations are already on patched versions (root 8.5.12, fxa-settings 8.5.14). Only transitive build-tooling copies (8.5.6, 8.4.31, 7.x, 6.x) fall in the vulnerable range, and none process untrusted CSS or execute at application runtime, so there is no exploitable path.

This PR can be reviewed and merged as a normal dependency update.

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BLEnder investigated: This dependency has an open security alert, but the repo is not affected.

postcss is used in fxa only as build-time CSS tooling (Tailwind CLI, postcss-loader, postcss-cli, postcss-preset-env, storybook), processing the repository's own trusted source stylesheets. The vulnerability requires attacker-controlled CSS to reach postcss().process() so that a malicious sourceMappingURL comment triggers a filesystem read; fxa (an auth/payments service) exposes no runtime path that accepts user-supplied CSS and passes it to postcss. The two direct declarations are already at patched versions (root devDependency pinned to 8.5.12; fxa-settings ^8.5.12 -> 8.5.14). Remaining sub-8.5.12 copies (8.5.6, 8.4.31, 7.0.39, 6.0.23) are transitive build-tool dependencies never fed untrusted input. No vulnerable code path is exercised.

This PR can be reviewed and merged as a normal dependency update.

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BLEnder investigated: This dependency has an open security alert, but the repo is not affected.

In the FxA monorepo, postcss is used solely as build-time CSS tooling (tailwindcss, autoprefixer, postcss-loader, postcss-preset-env, next/webpack/storybook bundling). The vulnerable resolved versions (8.4.31, 8.5.6, and legacy 6.0.23/7.0.39) are all transitive build dependencies; the two direct declarations (root devDependency and fxa-settings dependency) are already >= 8.5.10 (resolving to 8.5.12/8.5.14). The XSS requires parsing UNTRUSTED user-submitted CSS via postcss.parse() and re-stringifying it into an HTML <style> tag at runtime. FxA has no such user-CSS ingestion surface, and no application/library source code invokes the postcss stringify API at runtime — every touchpoint is a postcss.config.js build pipeline. The vulnerable </style> path is therefore not reachable at runtime; this is a build-dependency hygiene issue only.

This PR can be reviewed and merged as a normal dependency update.

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A newer version of postcss exists, but since this PR has been edited by someone other than Dependabot I haven't updated it. You'll get a PR for the updated version as normal once this PR is merged.

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Recreating this as a clean version-only bump.

BLEnder's fix commit overstepped here — to get its own CI green it rewrote _scripts/check-node-version.sh, loosening our intentional exact-Node guard to a ^ range (and dropping the file's exec bit along the way). A dependency bump shouldn't be editing repo guards like that, especially since BLEnder itself found postcss not affected. Thanks @vbudhram for catching it and restoring the exec bit. Recreating drops both edits and leaves just the postcss change.

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@dependabot dependabot Bot changed the title chore(deps-dev): bump postcss from 8.5.12 to 8.5.18 chore(deps): bump postcss from 8.5.12 to 8.5.23 Aug 7, 2026
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Note: This PR has failing CircleCI checks.
BLEnder cannot access CircleCI log output, so it
may not be able to diagnose or fix the failure.
Consider migrating CI to GitHub Actions so BLEnder
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BLEnder picked up this PR. Workflow run

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BLEnder could not fix this PR automatically. Workflow run

LZoog pushed a commit to LZoog/fxa that referenced this pull request Aug 11, 2026
fxa has no required status checks, so approved Dependabot PRs go clean
immediately and GitHub won't arm auto-merge; BLEnder re-approves each safe
PR every sweep (e.g. postcss PR mozilla#20923 collected ~30 approvals). Dry-run
keeps BLEnder installed but stops it posting reviews. Revert once
mozilla/blender#120 lands.
dschom pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 12, 2026
fxa has no required status checks, so approved Dependabot PRs go clean
immediately and GitHub won't arm auto-merge; BLEnder re-approves each safe
PR every sweep (e.g. postcss PR #20923 collected ~30 approvals). Dry-run
keeps BLEnder installed but stops it posting reviews. Revert once
mozilla/blender#120 lands.
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vbudhram force-pushed the dependabot/npm_and_yarn/postcss-8.5.18 branch from ca3737e to 2f5bc7f Compare August 12, 2026 17:52
Bumps [postcss](https://github.com/postcss/postcss) from 8.5.12 to 8.5.23.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/postcss/postcss/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](postcss/postcss@8.5.12...8.5.23)

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- dependency-name: postcss
  dependency-version: 8.5.18
  dependency-type: direct:development
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vbudhram force-pushed the dependabot/npm_and_yarn/postcss-8.5.18 branch from 2f5bc7f to 1f1a60e Compare August 12, 2026 18:01
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