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CVE-2026-88064

high

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals.

Vendor / product: Linuxfoundation — backstage plugin-techdocs-node

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Prior to 1.14.6 and from 1.15.0 until 1.15.4, the @backstage/plugin-techdocs-node package insufficiently validates mkdocs.yml supplied by an authenticated user who can register or modify a TechDocs source. Unsafe Python YAML tags, markdown_extensions names and configuration, theme options, and extra_templates values can reach the documentation generator and cause unintended code execution. The resulting impact is limited to the files, credentials, network access, and other resources available to the TechDocs backend or build container. This issue is fixed in versions 1.14.6 and 1.15.4.

CVSS
8.8
8.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (security-advisories@github.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-16 15:18
Modified: 2026-10-14 18:02
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linuxfoundation / backstage_plugin-techdocs-node <1.14.6, ≥1.15.0 <1.15.4
linuxfoundation / backstage <1.14.6, ≥1.15.0 <1.15.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-292q-8mf5-h6g3
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/017ace52d9b327ededc6704cf17799c875ae0f29
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/02cd7cdbb18b687446277b5602adaee7f1d53cbb
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/25125ee727a3de3418a8fa6a9e458cd5b73ecf26
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/a7d995f11a5d27f0efbdbe8bb6c21b06988c79c9
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/a900a9953c8f7ad3ba1906d1d257725a9996cc9d
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/releases/tag/v1.50.5
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/releases/tag/v1.54.6
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-292q-8mf5-h6g3

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:54 UTC · record ↗

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