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`.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2021-06-03T22:00:12

Updated: 2024-08-03T23:25:31.046Z

Reserved: 2021-05-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-32662

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-06-03T22:15:07.873

Modified: 2021-06-21T14:21:06.850

Link: CVE-2021-32662

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