CVE-2026-48150CWE-915

Budibase: Workspace-scoped builder escalates to global admin via /api/public/v1/roles/assign

Critical · published May 27, 2026

CVSS v3.1
9.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Budibase is an open-source low-code platform. Prior to 3.39.0, /api/public/v1/roles/assign is guarded by the builderOrAdmin middleware, which passes any user who is a builder for the app id in the x-budibase-app-id header. That check admits both global builders and workspace-scoped builders (builder.apps set but builder.global unset). The controller then spreads the request body into the SDK call, and the SDK grants builder.global=true or admin.global=true on whichever user ids the caller supplies. Bob, a workspace-scoped builder with an API key, promotes himself or any other user to global admin with one POST. The whole flow is tenant-wide privilege escalation from an app-level role, available to anyone with an Enterprise license that unlocks the EXPANDED_PUBLIC_API feature. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.39.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.0 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00471 · 39.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-915 · Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes
Published
2026-05-27T16:58Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAY 16:58Z
    Budibase: Workspace-scoped builder escalates to global admin via /api/public/v1/roles/assign
    cvelistv5