CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-35926
9.9 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Undergoing Analysis
- Published
- 2023-06-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
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 configurations
• linuxfoundation backstage (< 1.15.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/fb7375507d56faedcb7bb3665480070593c8949a Patch
- https://github.com/backstage/backstage/releases/tag/v1.15.0 Release Notes
- https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-wg6p-jmpc-xjmr Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/fb7375507d56faedcb7bb3665480070593c8949a Patch
- https://github.com/backstage/backstage/releases/tag/v1.15.0 Release Notes
- https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-wg6p-jmpc-xjmr Vendor Advisory