CVE-2021-32660 Information

Description

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals and techdocs-common contains common functionalities for Backstage’s TechDocs. In versions of @backstage/tehdocs-common prior to 0.6.4 a malicious internal actor is able to upload documentation content with malicious scripts. These scripts would normally be sanitized by the TechDocs frontend but by tricking a user to visit the content via the TechDocs API the content sanitazion will be bypassed. If the TechDocs API is hosted on the same origin as the Backstage app or other backend plugins this may give access to sensitive data. The ability to upload malicious content may be limited by internal code review processes unless the chosen TechDocs deployment method is to use an object store and the actor has access to upload files directly to that store. The vulnerability is patched in the 0.6.4 release of @backstage/techdocs-common.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Reference

https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-pwhf-39xg-4rxw https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/aad98c544e59369901fe9e0a85f6357644dceb5c https://github.com/backstage/backstage/releases/tag/release-2021-06-03

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

8.1