CVE-2026-25152

@backstage/plugin-techdocs-node vulnerable to possible Path Traversal in TechDocs Local Generator

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jan 30, 2026
Updated: Feb 2, 2026
Reserved: Jan 29, 2026

Description

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals, and @backstage/plugin-techdocs-node provides common node.js functionalities for TechDocs. In versions of @backstage/plugin-techdocs-node prior to 1.13.11 and 1.14.1, a path traversal vulnerability in the TechDocs local generator allows attackers to read arbitrary files from the host filesystem when Backstage is configured with `techdocs.generator.runIn: local`. When processing documentation from untrusted sources, symlinks within the docs directory are followed by MkDocs during the build process. File contents are embedded into generated HTML and exposed to users who can view the documentation. This vulnerability is fixed in` @backstage/plugin-techdocs-node` versions 1.13.11 and 1.14.1. Some workarounds are available. Switch to `runIn: docker` in `app-config.yaml` and/or restrict write access to TechDocs source repositories to trusted users only.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
backstagebackstage	< 1.13.11Affected = 1.14.0Affected

References

https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-w669-jj7h-88m9

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