CVE-2023-35926

HIGH

Backstage - Code Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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`.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.0
EPSS 0.0915
EPSS Percentile 92.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (2)
backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend 0 - 1.15.0npm
linuxfoundation/backstage < 1.15.0
Published Jun 22, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026