Description
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Prior to 1.14.6, the @backstage/plugin-techdocs-node package is affected by improper validation of mkdocs theme configuration in techdocs. When TechDocs is configured to build documentation locally or in a container, a user with write access to a registered repository can include configuration values in mkdocs.yml that cause arbitrary code execution during the documentation build process. This issue is fixed in versions 1.14.6 and 1.15.4.
Published: 2026-10-06
Score: 7.7 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8w7q-29mw-gf5c Backstage: Improper validation of MkDocs theme configuration in TechDocs
History

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Description Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Prior to 1.14.6, the @backstage/plugin-techdocs-node package is affected by improper validation of mkdocs theme configuration in techdocs. When TechDocs is configured to build documentation locally or in a container, a user with write access to a registered repository can include configuration values in mkdocs.yml that cause arbitrary code execution during the documentation build process. This issue is fixed in versions 1.14.6 and 1.15.4.
Title Backstage: Improper validation of MkDocs theme configuration in TechDocs
Weaknesses CWE-1336
CWE-94
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-06T21:50:07.721Z

Reserved: 2026-10-06T18:46:47.767Z

Link: CVE-2026-106509

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-06T22:17:06.463

Modified: 2026-10-07T13:58:29.527

Link: CVE-2026-106509

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Updated: 2026-10-07T01:45:08Z

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