Budibase authenticated arbitrary S3 signed upload URL issuance via `/api/attachments/:datasourceId/url`

Summary

Budibase 3.39.7 allows a low-privilege authenticated published-app user with the built-in BASIC role to obtain arbitrary S3 pre-signed upload URLs backed by a workspace datasource's stored server-side credentials.

The affected endpoint is:

POST /api/attachments/:datasourceId/url

The caller can control:

bucket
key

and receives:

signedUrl
publicUrl

This lets a low-privilege published-app user mint S3 PUT URLs using server-side datasource credentials for attacker-chosen object destinations.

Steps:

1. Log in as an admin user.
2. Create a new app/workspace.
3. In the development app context, create an S3 datasource with valid credentials.
4. Publish the app.
5. Create a low-privilege user with the built-in BASIC role on the published production app ID.
6. Log in as that BASIC user.
7. Send: POST /api/attachments/<datasourceId>/url

with:

{"bucket":"foo","key":"bar"}

and the published app header:

x-budibase-app-id: <published_app_id>

Observe a successful response containing:

signedUrl
publicUrl

Observed result

The following behavior:

dev BASIC request: 403 User does not have permission app publish: SUCCESS prod BASIC request: 200 OK Example confirmed runtime values from the final successful run:

prodAppId: app_e6b4cdc6cd6949969a83ff11eee88c5a
datasourceId: datasource_0cec491b26a742468257c62382aa3284
publicUrl: https://foo.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bar

The returned signedUrl contained standard AWS signing markers, including:

X-Amz-Credential=bb
X-Amz-Signature
X-Amz-Expires=900

Impact

A low-privilege published-app user who knows a valid datasource ID can mint S3 upload URLs backed by server-side datasource credentials and choose arbitrary destination bucket and key values.

Route definition

packages/server/src/api/routes/static.ts:45 Authorization logic packages/server/src/middleware/authorized.ts packages/server/src/middleware/resourceId.ts Controller logic packages/server/src/api/controllers/static/index.ts Datasource lookup