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High · 8.1 CVE-2023-35926 EUVD-2023-1899GHSA-wg6p-jmpc-xjmr

Insecure sandbox in Backstage Scaffolder plugin

Published Jun 22, 2023 · Updated Dec 5, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. The Backstage scaffolder-backend plugin uses a templating library that requires sandbox, as it by design allows for code injection. The library used for this sandbox so far has been `vm2`, but in light of several past vulnerabilities and existing vulnerabilities that may not have a fix, the plugin has switched to using a different sandbox library. A malicious actor with write access to a registered scaffolder template could manipulate the template in a way that allows for remote code execution on the scaffolder-backend instance. This was only exploitable in the template YAML definition itself and not by user input data. This is vulnerability is fixed in version 1.15.0 of `@backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
backstage backstage < 1.15.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend < 1.15.0 1.15.0 GHSA-wg6p-jmpc-xjmr

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