CVE-2021-32662

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`.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2021-32662

• Assigner
• security-advisories@github.com

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2021-06-03T22:15:07

• Last Modified Date
• 2021-06-21T14:21:06

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

• Access Vector
• NETWORK

• Access Compatibility
• MEDIUM

• Authentication
• SINGLE

• Confidentiality Impact
• PARTIAL

• Integrity Impact
• NONE

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 3.5

• Severity
• LOW

• Exploitability Score
• 6.8

• Impact Score
• 2.9

• Version
• 3.1

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

• Attack Vector
• NETWORK

• Attack Compatibility
• LOW

• Privileges Required
• LOW

• User Interaction
• NONE

• Scope
• UNCHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• HIGH

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 6.5

• Base Severity
• MEDIUM

• Exploitability Score
• 2.8

• Impact Score
• 3.6