Critical vulnerability discovered in Spotify Backstage platform

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A vulnerability has been discovered in Spotify’s open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-incubated project Backstage, that could allow threat actors to execute remote code execution (RCE).

The Oxeye research team discovered a way to escape a virtual machine (VM) sandbox by using a third-party library called vm2.

Oxeye claimed to have identified more than 500 publicly exposed Backstage instances on the internet that could then be remotely controlled by an adversary without authorization.

Spotify rated the vulnerability, which affects the developer portal building platform as critical with a CVSS score of 9.8.

“Backstage can hold integration details to many organization systems such as Prometheus, Jira, ElasticSearch and others,” the Oxeye said.

While it is impossible to know the extent to which cybercriminals are already exploiting vulnerabilities in DevOps platforms, the level of cybersecurity screening has dramatically increased in the wake of a number of high-profile breaches.

The sources for this piece include an article in TheHackerNews.

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