CVE-2023-35926 HIGH

CVE-2023-35926: Insecure sandbox in Backstage Scaffolder plugin

Vendor Backstage
Product backstage
Weakness CWE-94 · Code injection
Published June 22, 2023
Last update December 5, 2024

CVSS base score

8.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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`.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 22, 2023 CVE published
December 5, 2024 Record updated