High severity · published Oct 6, 2026
CVE-2026-106457
Backstage: Insufficient audience validation in the Cloudflare Access auth provider
8.1
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. From 0.1.0 until 0.5.0, the @backstage/plugin-auth-backend-module-cloudflare-access-provider package is affected by insufficient audience validation in the cloudflare access auth provider. The Cloudflare Access auth provider verifies a token's signature and team issuer, but affected versions do not verify that the token was issued for the Backstage application. A user holding a valid token for another Access application in the same Cloudflare Zero Trust team may therefore be able to authenticate to Backstage if that token reaches the auth endpoint without the Backstage application's audience already being enforced upstream. Cloudflare Access normally evaluates the protected application before forwarding requests. This issue is fixed in version 0.5.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 20% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BA
backstage · backstage
>= 1.26.0, < 1.55.0 · source: vendor, NVD
PL
plugin-auth-backend-module-cloudflare-access-provider · @backstage
>= 0.1.0, < 0.5.0 · source: vendor
BA
Backstage/plugin-auth-backend-module-cloudflare-access-provider · Linuxfoundation
0.1.0 before 0.5.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
PL
plugin-auth-backend-module-cloudflare-access-provider
@backstage
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-106457
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-106457
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-q333-f498-w2x7
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/ed9034cacd9def3b3674f0a764fe992f751e204d
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/backstage/backstage/releases/tag/v1.55.0
