CVE-2024-45815 Prototype pollution in @backstage/plugin-catalog-backend

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. A malicious actor with authenticated access to a Backstage instance with the catalog backend plugin installed is able to interrupt the service using a specially crafted query to the catalog API. This has been fixed in the 1.26.0 release of the @backstage/plugin-catalog-backend. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.