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GHSA-PGF8-28GG-VPR6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-06-04 19:09 – Updated: 2021-06-07 18:55

Summary

Path traversal

Details

Impact

A malicious actor could read sensitive files from the environment where TechDocs documentation is built and published by setting a particular path for docs_dir in mkdocs.yml. These files would then be available over the TechDocs backend API.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker would need access to modify the mkdocs.yml in the documentation source code, and would also need access to the TechDocs backend API.

Patches

The vulnerability is patched in the 0.6.3 release of @backstage/techdocs-common.

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If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

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Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

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  "modified": "2021-06-07T18:55:30Z",
  "published": "2021-06-04T19:09:20Z",
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}

CVE-2021-32662 (GCVE-0-2021-32662)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-03 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:25

Title

TechDocs mkdocs.yml path traversal

Summary

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals, and techdocs-common contains common functionalities for Backstage's TechDocs. In `@backstage/techdocs-common` versions prior to 0.6.3, a malicious actor could read sensitive files from the environment where TechDocs documentation is built and published by setting a particular path for `docs_dir` in `mkdocs.yml`. These files would then be available over the TechDocs backend API. This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that an attacker would need access to modify the `mkdocs.yml` in the documentation source code, and would also need access to the TechDocs backend API. The vulnerability is patched in the `0.6.3` release of `@backstage/techdocs-common`.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

3 references

URL	Tags
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https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/8ce…	x_refsource_MISC
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Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
backstage	backstage	Affected: < 0.6.3

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