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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 26, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

XSS vulnerability in @backstage/plugin-auth-backend

CVE-2021-43776

Description

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. In affected versions the auth-backend plugin allows a malicious actor to trick another user into visiting a vulnerable URL that executes an XSS attack. This attack can potentially allow the attacker to exfiltrate access tokens or other secrets from the user's browser. The default CSP does prevent this attack, but it is expected that some deployments have these policies disabled due to incompatibilities. This is vulnerability is patched in version 0.4.9 of @backstage/plugin-auth-backend.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
@backstage/plugin-auth-backendnpm
< 0.4.90.4.9

Affected products

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Patches

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