Medium severity · published Sep 17, 2024
CVE-2024-45815
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
6.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. A malicious actor with authenticated access to a Backstage instance with the catalog backend plugin installed is able to interrupt the service using a specially crafted query to the catalog API. This has been fixed in the `1.26.0` release of the `@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend`. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BA
Backstage · Linuxfoundation
before 1.26.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45815
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-45815
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-3x3f-jcp3-g22j
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