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Medium · 4.9 CVE-2026-106499 EUVD-2026-94057GHSA-mfvq-x7vr-rgqg

Backstage: Secret-derived values may be exposed in scaffolder task logs

Published Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Prior to 4.1.0, the @backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend package could expose secret-derived values in Scaffolder task logs. Deployments that configure sensitive scaffolder.defaultEnvironment.secrets and allow an attacker to create or modify Scaffolder templates are affected. A template author could cause secret-derived values used during template iteration to be persisted and exposed to users who can access the resulting task logs. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
backstage backstage < 1.54.6 —
@backstage plugin-scaffolder-backend < 4.1.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend < 4.1.0 4.1.0 GHSA-mfvq-x7vr-rgqg

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