GHSA-4647-wpjq-hh7f Budibase Unrestricted Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) via REST Datasource Query Preview
SummaryThe REST datasource query preview endpoint (`POST /api/queries/preview`) makes server-side HTTP requests to any URL supplied by the user in `fields.path` with no validation. An authenticated admin can reach internal services that are not exposed to the internet — including cloud metadata endpoints (AWS/GCP/Azure), internal databases, Kubernetes APIs, and other pods on the internal network. On GCP this leads to OAuth2 token theft with `cloud-platform` scope (full GCP access). On any deployment it enables full internal network enumeration.DetailsThe vulnerable handler is in `packages/server/src/api/controllers/query.ts` (`preview()`). It reads `fields.path` from the request body and passes it directly to the REST HTTP client without any IP or hostname validation:No blocklist exists for:Loopback (`127.0.0.1`, `::1`)RFC 1918 ranges (`10.x.x.x`, `172.16-31.x.x`, `192.168.x.x`)Link-local / cloud metadata (`169.254.x.x`)Internal Kubernetes DNS (`.svc.cluster.local`)The `datasourceId` field must reference an existing REST-type datasource. This is trivially obtained via `GET /api/datasources` (lists all datasources with their IDs) or created on-demand with a single POST — no base URL is required and `fields.path` overrides it entirely.PoC**Step 1 — Get session token**Response sets `Cookie: budibase:auth=<JWT>`.**Step 2 — Get a REST datasourceId**Pick any `_id` where `"source": "REST"`.Captured from this engagement:Token: `eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJ1c19kY2EyMDk0NDdjMGQ0YjI2YjkxNWVmNGRhYTNjMTUzMCIsInNlc3Npb25JZCI6ImVkNTZlNDRiYjg3ODQyNDU5MmJlZmZlMWFjNmY3OTkzIiwidGVuYW50SWQiOiJkZWZhdWx0IiwiZW1haWwiOiJ0ZXN0X2FkbWluX3VzZXJAdGVzdHRlc3QxMjMuY29tIiwiaWF0IjoxNzcxOTMxNjQ2fQ.O7hCEO8z95dW64hilJ_W80JU0AJqdCC_ZlAPRPlKLVs`App ID: `app_dev_3dbfeba315fd4baa8fb6202fe517e93b`REST datasource ID: `datasource_49d5a1ed1c6149e48c4de0923e5b20c5`**Step 3 — Send SSRF request**Change `fields.path` to any internal URL. Examples below.**3a. Cloud metadata — GCP OAuth2 token**Response:Impact_What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted?_
Any authenticated admin/builder user can make the Budibase server issue HTTP requests to any network-reachable address. Confirmed impact on this engagement:**Cloud credential theft** — GCP OAuth2 token with `cloud-platform` scope stolen from `169.254.169.254`. Token verified valid against GCP Projects API, granting full access to all GCP services in the project.**Internal database access** — CouchDB reached at `budibase-svc-couchdb:5984` with extracted credentials, exposing all application data.**Internal service enumeration** — MinIO (`minio-service:9000`), Redis, and internal worker APIs (`127.0.0.1:4002`) all reachable.**Kubernetes cluster access** — K8s API server reachable at `kubernetes.default.svc` using the pod's mounted service account token.The vulnerability affects **all deployment environments** (GCP, AWS, Azure, bare-metal, Docker Compose, Kubernetes). The specific impact depends on what services are reachable from the Budibase pod, but cloud metadata theft is possible on any cloud-hosted instance.Detected by:
Abdulrahman Albatel
Abdullah Alrasheed
CVSS v3.1 score: 8.7