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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 3, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024

TechDocs content sanitization bypass

CVE-2021-32660

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.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
@backstage/techdocs-commonnpm
< 0.6.40.6.4

Affected products

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Patches

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Initial changeset.

https://github.com/backstage/backstageEric PetersonMay 31, 2021via ghsa
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  • .changeset/techdocs-fresh-and-clean.md+6 0 added
    @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
    +---
    +'@backstage/techdocs-common': patch
    +'@backstage/plugin-techdocs': patch
    +---
    +
    +Fixes multiple XSS and sanitization bypass vulnerabilities in TechDocs. For details, see [ link to security advisories here ] ...
    
  • .github/styles/vocab.txt+1 0 modified
    @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ rst
     rsync
     ruleset
     sam
    +sanitization
     scaffolded
     scaffolder
     Scaffolder
    

Vulnerability mechanics

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