Log4Shell-like code execution hole in popular Backstage dev tool

Good old "string templating", also known as "string interpolation", in the spotlight again...

Critical RCE Flaw Reported in Spotify's Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform

Spotify's Backstage has been discovered as vulnerable to a severe security flaw that could be exploited to gain remote code execution by leveraging a recently disclosed bug in a third-party module. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 9.8), at its core, takes advantage of a critical sandbox escape in vm2, a popular JavaScript sandbox library (CVE-2022-36067 aka Sandbreak), that came to light last