CVE-2021-32662: Path Traversal

June 3, 2021 (updated June 10, 2021)

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals, and techdocs-common contains common functionalities for Backstage’s TechDocs. In @backstage/techdocs-common, 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32662

Code Behaviors & Features

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