# Backstage: Improper input validation in cloud storage URL readers

Advisory record · `GHSA-7649-wm97-w3j3`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-7649-wm97-w3j3` · `CVE-2026-106494`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 4.4 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-22](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html) · [CWE-73](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/73.html)
- **Tags:** [Path traversal](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/path-traversal.md)
- **Published:** 7 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 7 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 7 Oct 2026, 17:59 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `@backstage/backend-defaults` (npm): affected `<0.17.8`; fixed in `0.17.8`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Backstage's @backend-defaults npm package, versions before 0.17.8, is affected by improper input validation in its cloud storage URL readers. An attacker who has write access to a cloud storage bucket used by Backstage could craft object names that collide with protected files in the output directory, which in certain deployment configurations could lead to content injection. Upgrade @backstage/backend-defaults to version 0.17.8, where the issue is patched.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 4.4 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0031, the 23rd percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 13:33 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:33 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7649-wm97-w3j3)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-7649-wm97-w3j3](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7649-wm97-w3j3)
- [OSV: GHSA-7649-wm97-w3j3](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7649-wm97-w3j3)
- <https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-7649-wm97-w3j3>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-106494>
- <https://github.com/backstage/backstage/commit/14e925ce5b905dd8daa64c3009722febda76034c>
- <https://github.com/backstage/backstage>
- <https://github.com/backstage/backstage/releases/tag/v1.54.6>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

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