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GHSA-MFVQ-X7VR-RGQG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-07 17:59 – Updated: 2026-10-07 17:59

Summary

Backstage: Secret-derived values may be exposed in scaffolder task logs

Details

Impact

Deployments that configure sensitive scaffolder.defaultEnvironment.secrets and allow an attacker to create or modify Scaffolder templates are affected. A template author could cause secret-derived values used during template iteration to be persisted in task logs, exposing those values to users with access to the resulting task logs.

Patches

Patched in @backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend version 4.1.0

Workarounds

Restrict permission to create or update Template entities to fully trusted parties, as recommended by the Backstage threat model.
If that restriction cannot be guaranteed, remove sensitive values from scaffolder.defaultEnvironment.secrets until a patched version is available.

No complete workaround is known that preserves both untrusted template authoring and access to sensitive default-environment secrets.

Severity

4.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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  "id": "GHSA-mfvq-x7vr-rgqg",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T17:59:14Z",
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CVE-2026-106499 (GCVE-0-2026-106499)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-06 21:25 – Updated: 2026-10-07 17:46

Title

Backstage: Secret-derived values may be exposed in scaffolder task logs

Summary

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Prior to 4.1.0, the @backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend package could expose secret-derived values in Scaffolder task logs. Deployments that configure sensitive scaffolder.defaultEnvironment.secrets and allow an attacker to create or modify Scaffolder templates are affected. A template author could cause secret-derived values used during template iteration to be persisted and exposed to users who can access the resulting task logs. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.0.

Severity

4.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-07 17:45 UTC

CWE

CWE-532 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7516 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/dc3…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/backstage/backstage/releases/t…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
backstage	backstage	Affected: < 1.54.6
@backstage	plugin-scaffolder-backend	Affected: < 4.1.0

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