CVE-2021-32662

Medium

Description

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals, and techdocs-common contains common functionalities for Backstage's TechDocs. In `@backstage/techdocs-common` versions prior to 0.6.3, a malicious actor could read sensitive files from the environment where TechDocs documentation is built and published by setting a particular path for `docs_dir` in `mkdocs.yml`. These files would then be available over the TechDocs backend API. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker would need access to modify the `mkdocs.yml` in the documentation source code, and would also need access to the TechDocs backend API. The vulnerability is patched in the `0.6.3` release of `@backstage/techdocs-common`.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinuxfoundation Backstage
PublishedJun 3, 2021
First seenJun 3, 2021

How to fix

Update
  • linuxfoundation backstage0.6.3 or later
  • @backstage/techdocs-common0.6.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linuxfoundation backstagev < 0.6.30.6.3
@backstage/techdocs-commonnpmv < 0.6.30.6.3

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