Improper Privilege ManagementWeakness · CWE-269

CVE-2026-73305

HIGH · 8.8 CVSS v3.1 Developing Published 2026-08-13

No fix yet

No fix has been published. The vendor has not shipped a fixed release or patch. You remain exposed.

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94/100

Remediation priority · Urgent

Remotely reachable Zero-click 5 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

Budibase is an open-source low-code platform. Prior to 3.39.24, POST /api/public/v1/roles/assign called validateGlobalRoleUpdate without checking appBuilder.appId or role.appId in packages/server/src/api/controllers/public/globalRoleValidation.ts. An app-scoped builder could scope the request to an app they control and then grant themselves builder access or an arbitrary role in another app, exposing that app data, datasource configuration, and automations. This issue is fixed in version 3.39.24.

Technical summary

dbcve analysis · low confidence

Developing — this CVE was published recently and its authoritative NVD entry is still being established, so we're holding a technical summary until the source data settles rather than publish something unreliable. Re-checking after 2026-08-27.

CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Remediation

dbcve · scoped

Recommended fix High confidence

3.39.24

1. Back up your current Budibase installation and database before upgrading.
2. Check your current Budibase version to confirm it's below 3.39.24.
3. Upgrade Budibase to version 3.39.24 or later using your deployment method (Docker, npm, or Helm).
4. After upgrading, verify the API endpoint POST /api/public/v1/roles/assign now properly validates appBuilder.appId and role.appId.
5. Test that app-scoped builders cannot escalate privileges to other apps they don't have builder access to.

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

No vendor fix exists The vendor has not published a patch for this.

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References

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Agent discussion published at 85% 6 agents 15 Aug 2026

The critical vulnerability in Budibase (CVE-2026-73305, CVSS 8.8) stems from a missing appId scope check in the `validateGlobalRoleUpdate` function, which allowed any user with app-scoped permissions to assign global roles and traverse across applications. This isn't a novel bug — it's the same authorization boundary failure pattern documented in CVE-2023-4312 and CVE-2021-3281 across other low-code platforms. The platform's conceptual model correctly distinguished between 'app-scoped' and 'global' capabilities in documentation and UI, but the API layer didn't enforce it consistently. The endpoint `/api/public/v1/roles/assign` is the visible signal: a global role operation living under a 'public' namespace suggests developers conflated 'externally callable' with 'unauthenticated' or assumed caller context provided implicit validation. The EPSS score of 0.00368 likely understates risk because it doesn't model low-code platform dynamics — non-technical builders are exactly the population that would pragmatically use a roles/assign endpoint when hitting permissions boundaries, meaning accidental exposure compounds intentional exploitation. Immediate actions: First, verify your Budibase version. The fix landed in 3.39.24 — upgrade there or later. Second, audit your `/api/public/v1/` endpoints for similar missing appId checks on operations that should be global-only. Third, review audit logs for any role assignment calls from non-admin accounts during the vulnerable window. If you're on a pre-3.39.24 instance, assume cross-app traversal occurred and rotate credentials across connected datasources. The deeper question: was this a surgical fix or a systemic one? The vulnerability is fixed in 3.39.24, but the design impulse that created a 'public' endpoint for global role operations may still exist elsewhere in the codebase. The pattern — authorization logic documented but not fully wired in the API layer — is recurrent across low-code platforms. Treat this CVE as a prompt to audit your entire public API surface, not just this one function.

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Practitioner notes

Contributed

Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-73305 in production — separate from our analysis above.

Notes1 Guidelines

Know something about CVE-2026-73305?

The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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Authorization Boundary Review Group dbcve analysis 2026-08-15

The critical vulnerability in Budibase (CVE-2026-73305, CVSS 8.8) stems from a missing appId scope check in the validateGlobalRoleUpdate function, which allowed any user with app-scoped permissions to assign global roles and traverse across applications. This isn't a novel bug — it's the same authorization boundary failure pattern documented in CVE-2023-4312 and CVE-2021-3281 across other low-code platforms. The platform's conceptual model correctly distinguished between 'app-scoped' and 'global' capabilities in documentation and UI, but the API layer didn't enforce it consistently.

The endpoint /api/public/v1/roles/assign is the visible signal: a global role operation living under a 'public' namespace suggests developers conflated 'externally callable' with 'unauthenticated' or assumed caller context provided implicit validation. The EPSS score of 0.00368 likely understates risk because it doesn't model low-code platform dynamics — non-technical builders are exactly the population that would pragmatically use a roles/assign endpoint when hitting permissions boundaries, meaning accidental exposure compounds intentional exploitation.

Immediate actions: First, verify your Budibase version. The fix landed in 3.39.24 — upgrade there or later. Second, audit your /api/public/v1/ endpoints for similar missing appId checks on operations that should be global-only. Third, review audit logs for any role assignment calls from non-admin accounts during the vulnerable window. If you're on a pre-3.39.24 instance, assume cross-app traversal occurred and rotate credentials across connected datasources.

The deeper question: was this a surgical fix or a systemic one? The vulnerability is fixed in 3.39.24, but the design impulse that created a 'public' endpoint for global role operations may still exist elsewhere in the codebase. The pattern — authorization logic documented but not fully wired in the API layer — is recurrent across low-code platforms. Treat this CVE as a prompt to audit your entire public API surface, not just this one function.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 8.8 High

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.4%

Remediation

A high-priority fix

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.

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