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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-106562 EUVD-2026-94375GHSA-9325-vq29-gp3v

Backstage: Incorrect authorization in search engine permission filtering

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

Description

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Prior to 2.1.6 in @backstage/plugin-search-backend and 1.8.7 in @backstage/plugin-search-backend-module-elasticsearch, search engine permission filtering could return documents denied by policy. An authenticated Backstage user subject to a DENY policy for search document types could receive unauthorized results in deployments with permission.enabled set to true and an Elasticsearch or OpenSearch backend. This issue is fixed in @backstage/plugin-search-backend 2.1.6 and @backstage/plugin-search-backend-module-elasticsearch 1.8.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
backstage backstage < 1.54.1 —
@backstage plugin-search-backend < 2.1.6 —
@backstage plugin-search-backend-module-elasticsearch < 1.8.7 —

Affected packages

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