What is CVE-2024-45816?

CVE-2024-45816 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Backstage, classified under Relative Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-09-17.

How severe is CVE-2024-45816?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Backstage

CVE-2024-45816

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. When using the AWS S3 or GCS storage provider for TechDocs it is possible to access content in the entire storage bucket. This can leak contents of the bucket that are not intended to be accessible, as well as bypass permission checks in Backstage. This has been fixed in the 1.10.13 release of the `@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend` package. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

EPSS: 0.007 (50.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Backstage — versions < 1.10.13
Linuxfoundation Backstage

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-45816?: CVE-2024-45816 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Backstage, classified under Relative Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-09-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-45816?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.