Medium severity · published Oct 6, 2026
CVE-2026-106460
Backstage: Explicit negative email verification can be ignored during shared OAuth profile normalization
6.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. From 0.3.0 until 0.6.15 and 0.7.5, the @backstage/plugin-auth-node package did not consistently honor explicit negative email verification during shared OAuth profile normalization. The affected paths include a selected profile email marked verified: false, a matching raw provider email marked email_verified: false, and an email obtained only from an ID token marked email_verified: false. Exploitation requires an admitted identity-provider user who can supply or change an unverified email and a deployment that uses the selected profile email to resolve catalog identities. The verification metadata must apply to the selected email; an absent email_verified claim alone is not affected. In an affected configuration, the user may assume another catalog identity and obtain its associated access and permissions. This issue is fixed in versions 0.6.15 and 0.7.5.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
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 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BA
backstage · backstage
>= 1.18.0, < 1.49.7; >= 1.50.0-next.0, < 1.54.7 · source: vendor, NVD
PL
plugin-auth-node · @backstage
>= 0.3.0, < 0.6.15; >= 0.7.0, < 0.7.5 · source: vendor
BA
Backstage/plugin-auth-node · Linuxfoundation
0.3.0 before 0.6.15; 0.7.0 before 0.7.5 · source: NVD